Madame Quote by Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary is timeless. It is not just about the female condition in France in the 1840s. It's not a simple cautionary tale. Emma…

— Sophie Barthes

I always wanted to be Jo in 'Little Women.' She's a bit reckless and feckless, always getting into trouble like me. But I'm probably…

— Sue Townsend

An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.

— Joseph McCarthy

Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.

— Salman Rushdie

As Baudelaire said it so beautifully, Emma Bovary is an androgynous character. She cannot be reduced to a gender or a sociological type. She…

— Sophie Barthes

“Madame Bovary, c'est moi. Emma Bovary. She was the first. The first to thrash around in the space between a packaged wonder and reality,…

— Antonia Quirke

I am really happy to have been selected by Madame Tussauds.

— Prabhas

Like the Wizards, Madame Tussauds has become a fixture in the nation's capital and one that I'm proud to be a part of.

— Gilbert Arenas

Catherine Deneuve is the man I've always wanted to be.

— Gerard Depardieu

The women of the French Resistance astounded me. Isabelle and Vianne [from The Nightingale] are my homage to those brave and forgotten women.

— Megan Chance

“Madame Boulle, in spite of her experiences among the highest English families, was amazed at the coolness shown by Lady Emily. A grandchild in…

— Angela Thirkell

Madame Walker was mythologized like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, but I want to show that she was fabulous on her own.

— A'Lelia Bundles