E.J. Levy > Quotes

“As a scholar, it was her job to see things in relationship to other things; the only thing she couldn't see in a relationship was herself.”
― E.J. Levy, Love, in Theory: Ten Stories

“I could not help but wonder, then as now, When we look at a man or a woman, what is it that we see? We make too much of the difference: having been both, I can say the distinctions are both greater and less than they appear. As a surgeon, I can attest that once the skin is peeled back, the distinctions are few; save for the reproductive organs, one cannot tell man from woman—one cannot say, This is a woman’s brain or lungs, a man’s heart. They think and beat just the same.”
― E.J. Levy, The Cape Doctor

“They did not take kindly to regulation, that enemy of self-serving charlatans everywhere.”
― E.J. Levy, The Cape Doctor