Middlesex
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“This has all been verified. Under the microscope. The male sperms are faster.” “I bet they’re stupider, too.”
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I’m the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you have to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival.
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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 it oversimplifies feeling.
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Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.
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There is no evidence against genetic determinism more persuasive than the children of the rich.
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Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.
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In this life we grow backwards.
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Life started out one thing and then suddenly turned a corner and became something else.