Gustave Flaubert said, "Emma Bovary, c'est moi." It is not possible to write something you are not, but to have a new… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Madame Bovary is one my favorite novels. Emma Bovary will always be an enigma, but as the years pass, I feel that… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Madame Bovary, c'est moi. Emma Bovary. She was the first. The first to thrash around in the space between a packaged wonder… — Antonia Quirke Copy Share Image
You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
As Baudelaire said it so beautifully, Emma Bovary is an androgynous character. She cannot be reduced to a gender or a sociological… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
