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> [“As the Hindu gods are ‘immortal’ only in a very particular sense – for they are born, and they die – they experience most of the great human dilemmas and often seem to differ from mortals only in a few…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-doniger/as-the-hindu-gods-are-immortal-only-in-a-very-particular-sense-for/)

[Wendy Doniger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-doniger/)

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## More by Wendy Doniger

> [Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-doniger/who-would-not-prefer-animals-to-these-people-who-prefer-animals-to/)

[Wendy Doniger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-doniger/)

> [“As the Hindu gods are ‘immortal’ only in a very particular sense – for they are born, and they die – they experience most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-doniger/as-the-hindu-gods-are-immortal-only-in-a-very-particular-sense-for/)

[Wendy Doniger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-doniger/)

> [The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think…Throughout the Mahabharata ... Krishna goads human beings into all sorts of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-doniger/the-bhagavad-gita-is-not-as-nice-a-book-as-some-americans-think/)

[Wendy Doniger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-doniger/)

> [Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-doniger/women-were-forbidden-to-study-the-most-ancient-sacred-text-the-veda/)

[Wendy Doniger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-doniger/)

> [(Sarah Palin's) greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-doniger/sarah-palin-s-greatest-hypocrisy-is-in-her-pretense-that-she-is-a/)

[Wendy Doniger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-doniger/)

> [I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-doniger/i-m-a-pacifist-i-don-t-believe-in-good-wars/)

[Wendy Doniger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-doniger/)

> [The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-doniger/the-dog-who-doesn-t-bark-is-about-a-silence-that-speaks-it-is-a-good/)

[Wendy Doniger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-doniger/)

> [“whether or not people get the gods that they deserve, they tend to get the gods (and demons) that their animals deserve—”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-doniger/whether-or-not-people-get-the-gods-that-they-deserve-they-tend-to-get/)

[Wendy Doniger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-doniger/)

> [“The future Buddha was once born as a rabbit, who vowed that he would give his own flesh to any beggar who came to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-doniger/the-future-buddha-was-once-born-as-a-rabbit-who-vowed-that-he-would/)

[Wendy Doniger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-doniger/)

> [Wine is the liquid form of the Goddess Tara, who is the saviour of all living creatures, the mother of all enjoyment and Release,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-doniger/wine-is-the-liquid-form-of-the-goddess-tara-who-is-the-saviour-of-all/)

[Wendy Doniger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-doniger/)

> [Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-doniger/holi-the-spring-carnival-when-members-of-all-castes-mingle-and-let/)

[Wendy Doniger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-doniger/)

> [“In 1864 a geologist named that supercontinent Lemuria, because he used the theory to account for the fact that living lemurs were found, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-doniger/in-1864-a-geologist-named-that-supercontinent-lemuria-because-he-used/)

[Wendy Doniger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-doniger/)

> [The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-doniger/the-bhagavad-gita-is-not-as-nice-a-book-as-some-americans-think-2/)

[Wendy Doniger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-doniger/)

> [“James Joyce, in his novel Finnegans Wake, in 1939, punned on the word “Hindoo” (as the British used to spell it), joking that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-doniger/james-joyce-in-his-novel-finnegans-wake-in-1939-punned-on-the-word/)

[Wendy Doniger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-doniger/)

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