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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 of me of a North…

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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 mother who,…
In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant…
My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the…
What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?
I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never…
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 a demand…
Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for…
I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's…
I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in…
There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me…
Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought…

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For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its Sun, which… — Cyrano de Bergerac
The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution,… — Karl Ernst von Baer
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... suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ. — Stephen King
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant. — Charles Caleb Colton
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Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At… — Mark Twain
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The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic… — Unknown Author
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At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the… — Henry Ward Beecher

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