--- title: "8 Emma Bovary Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 8 Emma Bovary quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Emma Bovary sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f53/lore-segal-25570_character_gustave-flaubert-said-emma-bovary-c-est_46057.jpg" --- > [Gustave Flaubert said, "Emma Bovary, c'est moi." It is not possible to write something you are not, but to have a new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/gustave-flaubert-said-emma-bovary-c-est-moi-it-is-not-possible-to/) [Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f53/lore-segal-25570_character_gustave-flaubert-said-emma-bovary-c-est_46057.jpg) > [In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/in-fiction-imaginary-people-become-realer-to-us-than-any-named/) [John Updike](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-updike/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/965/john-updike-396_anna_in-fiction-imaginary-people-become-reale_64495.jpg) > [Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/maybe-it-s-not-in-the-end-the-virtues-of-others-that-so-wrenches-our/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/355/michael-cunningham-1120_admirable_maybe-it-s-not-in-the-end-the-virtues-of_1305575.jpg) > [Madame Bovary is one my favorite novels. Emma Bovary will always be an enigma, but as the years pass, I feel that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-barthes/madame-bovary-is-one-my-favorite-novels-emma-bovary-will-always-be-an/) [Sophie Barthes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-barthes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cf/sophie-barthes-49244_appetite_madame-bovary-is-one-my-favorite-novels_1420367.jpg) > [As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bharati-mukherjee/as-a-bookish-child-in-calcutta-i-used-to-thrill-to-the-adventures-of/) [Bharati Mukherjee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bharati-mukherjee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/044/bharati-mukherjee-14775_adventure_as-a-bookish-child-in-calcutta-i-used-to_1574544.png) > [“Madame Bovary, c'est moi. Emma Bovary. She was the first. The first to thrash around in the space between a packaged wonder…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonia-quirke/madame-bovary-c-est-moi-emma-bovary-she-was-the-first-the-first-to/) [Antonia Quirke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonia-quirke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/168/antonia-quirke-83581_emma-bovary_madame-bovary-c-est-moi-emma-bovary-she_1999184.jpg) > [You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/you-can-examine-the-whole-19th-century-from-the-point-of-view-of-who/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cd/margaret-atwood-40_19th-century_you-can-examine-the-whole-19th-century-f_2821068.jpg) > [As Baudelaire said it so beautifully, Emma Bovary is an androgynous character. She cannot be reduced to a gender or a sociological…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-barthes/as-baudelaire-said-it-so-beautifully-emma-bovary-is-an-androgynous/) [Sophie Barthes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-barthes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/477/sophie-barthes-49244_ability_as-baudelaire-said-it-so-beautifully-emm_2952947.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/emma-bovary/#itemlist", "name": "Emma Bovary Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Gustave Flaubert said, \"Emma Bovary, c'est moi.\" It is not possible to write something you are not, but to have a new form, with a different hair color and a new body ... I do very little of that. That's why I keep bringing up the same people. I haven't given myself a hard time about it. 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