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Bharati Mukherjee has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who,…
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In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant…
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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 negotiated the…
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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 had never…
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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 a demand…
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Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for…
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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 a lawyer's…
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I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian 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 of me…
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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 was brought…
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Popular Home Everywhere quotes from across the collection:
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The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.
— Honore de Balzac
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The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.
— Bharati Mukherjee
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And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was…
— Robyn Davidson
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I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.
— Georges Simenon
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When we are at home with ourselves, we are at home everywhere in the world. When we have found peace within ourselves,…
— Eknath Easwaran
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Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself…
— Margot Fonteyn
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Home. One place is just like another, really. Maybe not. But truth is it's all just rock and dirt and people are…
— Michael Shaara
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Philosophy is transcendental homelessness; it is the urge to be at home everywhere
— Gyorgy Lukacs
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You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. "Theories of…
— Natasha Trethewey
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I am a free man. I feel at home everywhere in Europe.
— Gerard Depardieu
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To my wife on Mother's Day, your habitude and light: May you be as happy as you make us with your love.…
— Nicholas Gordon
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