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 together, to declare that their children will be legal, that these children can inherit their property.… — Shashi Deshpande Copy Share
“Women without men, I realized then, are totally different creatures.” — 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 together, to declare that their children will be legal, that these children can inherit their property. It’s meant for social living, to ensure that some rules are observed, so that men and women don’t cross the… — 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 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
