Novelist Quotes by Bharati Mukherjee

You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa City from Calcutta…

— Bharati Mukherjee

The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between…

— Bharati Mukherjee

“It's making life important, making a single life important, rather than having a prescription for the global ills which afflict us.”

— Bharati Mukherjee

I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.

— Bharati Mukherjee

I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for…

— Bharati Mukherjee

In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine…

— Bharati Mukherjee

One of the early tip-offs to me about the enormous changes that were going on with being in a Bangalore house, home, where the…

— Bharati Mukherjee

I am aware of myself as a four-hundred-year-old woman, born in the captivity of a colonial, pre-industrial oral culture and living now as a…

— Bharati Mukherjee

Mother Teresa's detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans' destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother…

— Bharati Mukherjee

Dullness is a kind of luxury.

— Bharati Mukherjee

I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money.…

— Bharati Mukherjee

“Love on the decline is hard to tell from love on the rise.” [From 'The Lady from Lucknow']”

— Bharati Mukherjee