“I know that safety is always unattainable. You're never safe.” — Shashi Deshpande Safety Copy Share Image
“Was’ and ‘is’ – in English there is very little difference between these two words. Only one letter more , just two… — Shashi Deshpande Ask yourself Copy Share Image
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 Feminism 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… — Shashi Deshpande Affair 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 Birth 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… — Shashi Deshpande Death Copy Share Image
“A woman can never be angry; she can only be neurotic, hysterical, frustrated.” — Shashi Deshpande Anger 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 Life 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… — Shashi Deshpande Change 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… — Shashi Deshpande Behinds Copy Share Image
“Women without men, I realized then, are totally different creatures.” — Shashi Deshpande Men and women Copy Share Image
. . . a friend . . . showed me the kitchen in her new home with the words, "This is my… — Shashi Deshpande Enjoy Copy Share Image
“I have often watched in fascination the leaps and bounds of her mind as, starting from the banks of uncomfortable facts, she… — Shashi Deshpande Innovation Copy Share Image
Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to… — Shashi Deshpande Different Copy Share Image
