Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Feelings, Emotion, Language

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black

• Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret". Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Regret, Believe, Sadness

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black

• I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Long, Finals, Language

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.20, A&C Black

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