"I have to put down roots where I……" — Bharati Mukherjee
"I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social, political and emotional commitments to a place, I have to find another place."
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21 Quotes by Bharati Mukherjee
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In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a…
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In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I…
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My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I…
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What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?
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I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I…
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The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.
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I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really…
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Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously…
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I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in…
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There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive…
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Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I…
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One of the early tip-offs to me about the enormous changes that were going on with being in a Bangalore…
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There are a lot of us little gypsies out there that need to go and find another place you know.…
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I've changed my music from time to time so I'm hoping that I can completely change my life from time…
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When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond…
— Keith Haring
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I know you want me back. It's time to face the facts. That I'm the one that's got away. Lord…
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Poor Fred - he's actually working on a typo, and somebody ought to tell him. Twice in the New Testament…
— Thom Hartmann
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This planet is an exquisitely arranged and interconnected system. What's controlled in one place is going to have consequences in…
— Marjorie Harris
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Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being…
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Let me tell you another place to look for some savings. We are currently spending $10 billion a month in…
— Barack Obama
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If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.
— Martin Lawrence
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I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.
— Roy Acuff
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Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in…
— Wendell Berry
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Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is…
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