Emma Brockes

Emma Brockes (born 1975) is a British author and a contributor to The Guardian and The New York Times. She lives in New York City.

Quotes

• Most of us understand, at least in theory, that marriage is not an achievement but a choice. We have learned to value ourselves apart from the value the dating market puts on us. We own our power and, in some cases, our apartments. We try not to go around saying things like "all the good ones are gone."
  • "Single at 38? Have That Baby", The New York Times (23 June 2018).

• For reasons that have never been clear to me, the call centre for my insurer – a policy bought through a broker in Dubai, regulated in the Channel Islands, and falling under the umbrella of one of the biggest insurers in the US – is located in Scotland, ensuring that the man who picked up my call had to strain as hard as I did to pretend this situation was normal.
  • "I’m in awful pain, on a morphine drip – and still I’m thinking about the cost. This is US healthcare after all", The Guardian (22 February 2024).