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Men Quotes by Arundhati Roy
- I am a woman who is a granddaughter of a lady who used to be beaten on the head by her husband, of a mother…
- By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like…
- It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it.…
- When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the boy he had…
- Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear--civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women,…
- It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining three raccoons, treating…
- They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both…
- It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their…
- If you are religious, then remember that this bomb is Man's challenge to God. It's worded quite simply: We have the power to destroy everything…
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