''I had miscalculated with Luce. I thought after talking to me he would decide that I was normal and leave me alone. But I was beginning to understand something about normality. Normality wasn’t normal. It couldn’t be. If normality were normal, everyone would leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself. But people - especially doctors - had doubts about normality. They weren’t sure normality was up to the job. And so they felt inclined to give it a boost.''
This is taken from the 2003 Pulizter Pulitzer Prize-winning novel [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlesex_%28novel%29 "Middlesex"] by Jeffrey Eugenides. (Tracked down, coincidentally, via a document on Trent University webspace... [http://www.trentu.ca/english/documents/IssueTwoAbhorrence_002.pdf])