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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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The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
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A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this…
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Until I became a parent, I thought children just naturally knew how to catch a ball, that catching was an instinctive biological…
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Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don't say, "I will endure this until I can get away…
— Oswald Chambers
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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve…
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Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are…
— James Surowiecki
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Caring is a reflex...You live, you help.
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I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Easy? You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suction, and gag reflex,…
— Kim Cattrall
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
— Victor Hugo
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