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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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People feel that the EU is heading in a direction that they never signed up to. They resent the interference in our…
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Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of…
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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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If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost.…
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Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside,…
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Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if…
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People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside…
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Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems…
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