Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces. — Shashi Deshpande Copy Share Image
“Was’ and ‘is’ – in English there is very little difference between these two words. Only one letter more , just two letters different.… — Shashi Deshpande Copy Share
I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism, — Shashi Deshpande Copy Share
Marriage is a very strange thing. It’s a very public institution, it’s meant to tell the world that two people are going to live… — Shashi Deshpande Copy Share
It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty — Shashi Deshpande Copy Share
“To overcome your fear of death, you have to move from ‘the world ends with me’ to ‘the world goes on without me’. It… — Shashi Deshpande Copy Share
“A woman can never be angry; she can only be neurotic, hysterical, frustrated.” — Shashi Deshpande Copy Share
“Surely there comes a moment in every human's life when he or she says, like the Sibyl - I wish to die.” — Shashi Deshpande Copy Share
Things can never be as they were. It's astonishing how we comment on change, as if change is something remarkable. On the contrary, not… — Shashi Deshpande Copy Share
A wife should always be few feet behind her husband. If he is an MA you should be a BA.If he is 5'4'tall you… — Shashi Deshpande Copy Share
. . . a friend . . . showed me the kitchen in her new home with the words, "This is my office." I… — Shashi Deshpande Copy Share
“I have often watched in fascination the leaps and bounds of her mind as, starting from the banks of uncomfortable facts, she reaches the… — Shashi Deshpande Copy Share
Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how… — Shashi Deshpande Copy Share
