Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“If you grew up in a house where you weren't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative. If you grew up… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Or in my grandparents's case, the circling worked like this: as they paced around the deck the first time, Lefty and Desdemona… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“...the novel had reached its apogee with the marriage plot and had never recovered from its disappearance. In the days when success… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“It was like that Talking Head song. „And you may ask yourself, 'How did I get here?' … And you may tell… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Find the Bad Guy means how, when you’re arguing with your spouse, both people are trying to win the argument. Who didn’t… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“We Greeks get married in circles, to impress upon ourselves the essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Tessio Zizmo had been a virgin when she married Milton Stephanides at the age of 22. Their engagement,which coincided with the Second… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Only the Lisbon house remained dark, a tunnel, an emptiness, past our smoke and flames.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never felt more vulnerable, frightened or confused in her life.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“The window was still open,” Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not momentous enough.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Within five minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“I don't approve of women driving, mind you. And now they get to vote!" He grumbled to himself. "Remember that play we saw ("The… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
