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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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If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're…
— Jason Aldean
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Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
— Walter Annenberg
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Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
— Rudyard Kipling
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I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up…
— Nate Silver
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Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed…
— Elizabeth Moon
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Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline... too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love…
— Dale Dauten
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A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much. Now everybody's got more leisure time…
— Prince Philip
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After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex. Of course, for some people it isn't work because they need the…
— Andy Warhol
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I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of…
— Sylvia Plath
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I dream too much, work too little.
— Sylvia Plath
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Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly…
— Eric Allman
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I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have…
— Elmore Leonard
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