"What was the duty of the teacher if…" — Bharati Mukherjee

What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire? - Bharati Mukherjee

"What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?"

— Bharati Mukherjee

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21 Quotes by Bharati Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a…
In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I…
My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I…
I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I…
The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.
I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really…
Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously…
I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in…
I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate…
There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive…
Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I…
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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More Duty Quotes

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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. — Saint Augustine
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time… — Charles Babbage
Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right… — Charles Babbage
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell
Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do… — John Banville
We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and… — Roy Barnes
We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go… — Dave Barry
An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as… — Jacques Barzun
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is… — Samuel Adams
Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators… — Gary Bauer
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but… — Simone de Beauvoir

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