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 Image
“Was’ and ‘is’ – in English there is very little difference between these two words. Only one letter more , just two letters different. But it is a lifetime, it is a world of difference. Time does not allow you to take the past along with you. Nothing remains unchanged. Love gets diluted, hate is forgotten and friendship and enmity… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“A woman can never be angry; she can only be neurotic, hysterical, frustrated.” — Shashi Deshpande Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Women without men, I realized then, are totally different creatures.” — Shashi Deshpande Copy Share Image
. . . a friend . . . showed me the kitchen in her new home with the words, "This is my office." I… — Shashi Deshpande Copy Share Image
