Accused Quote by Bharati Mukherjee

“I began the project of judging Mother Teresa’s reputation by her actions and words rather than her actions and words by her reputation.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“A British journalist once asked Mother Teresa how she kept going, knowing that she could never meet the needs of all the dying in…

— Kenneth E. Bailey

“she had fought hotly against injustice, vanity, and blind, towering stupidity. Occasionally, on the battlefield where death was a reality, she had won. But…

— Anne Perry

“Her mother could sail impervious through reversals and snubs that would have sunk another woman. But she was defenseless against her own thoughts”

— Carey Wallace

Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth.

— Steven Pinker

You know, you can't always criticize without somebody being at the end of the stick. And she perhaps did not always grant credit to…

— William A. Rusher

The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has…

— Ernestine Rose

“The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have…

— Ayn Rand

“In her writings, she despises her fellow man and woman for representing what she had lost.”

— Lilian Pizzichini

“They want more, they learn to make claims, the tribute of respect is at last felt to be well-nigh galling; rivalry for rights, indeed…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It was characteristic of her that she remembered her failures as keenly as her triumphs, and that the passionate desire to obliterate, to "get…

— Edith Wharton

Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

— Elizabeth Gaskell