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Discover the most inspirational quotes from the Bovary Quotes. Here, you’ll find a diverse collection of motivation, wisdom, love, laughter, or a deeper understanding of life, our curated selection of quotes has something for everyone.
Perfect for fans and those looking for motivation, our collection of Bovary Quotes will inspire and resonate with you. Bovary Quotes

Sue Townsend

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 more like Madame Bovary.

– Sue Townsend

Lydia Davis

I first read ‘Madame Bovary’ in my teens or early twenties.

– Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis

I wrote the first draft of ‘Madame Bovary’ without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek.

– Lydia Davis

Leila Slimani

All fiction is based on truth – ‘Madame Bovary’ is based on a true story!

– Leila Slimani

Kathryn Harrison

Madame Bovary’ advanced slowly, as slowly as it would have to have, given an author who held himself accountable to each word, that it be the right word, of which there could be only one.

– Kathryn Harrison

Kathryn Harrison

The power of ‘Madame Bovary’ stems from Flaubert’s determination to render each object of his scrutiny exactly as it looks, or sounds or smells or feels or tastes.

– Kathryn Harrison

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary is myself.

– Gustave Flaubert

Brigitte Macron

I have a boundless passion for Flaubert. It’s unthinkable to me that someone might not have read ‘Madame Bovary.’ He writes with a scalpel. Everything has meaning. My students were not allowed not to like him!

– Brigitte Macron

Bharati Mukherjee Imagination

As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.

– Bharati Mukherjee

Anger Lauren Groff

There aren’t very many good models of feminine rage – and the ones that we remember are ones where women take that anger internally and implode themselves in a real way, like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary.

– Lauren Groff

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