Castes Quote by Katherine Boo

“For years, Asha had hoped that her daughter wouldn’t guess about the men. Now she wished she had raised Manju to be worldly enough…

— Katherine Boo

“She was simple, not being able to adorn herself, but she was unhappy, as one out of her class; for women belong to no…

— Guy de Maupassant

“Jasnah sniffed. “Your tutors were idiots. Youthful immaturity is one of the cosmere’s great catalysts for change, Shallan.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“But Mehrunnisa did not know then, would never know, by giving her blessings to this marriage she had set into progress a chain of…

— Indu Sundaresan

“And despite being seventeen - Hattori Mariko knew her place in life. She would marry Minamoto Raiden. Her parents would have the prestige of…

— Renee Ahdieh

“People like Eunice just never had quite figured out how to get along in the world. They might be perfectly intelligent, but they were…

— Anne Tyler

“It's the standard-issue Indian male syndrome. Mothers and sisters on a pedestal on the one hand, and loose women and prostitutes below the boot…

— Nayana Currimbhoy

“The presence of females was oppressive to them all. It seemed to them that lately the world was full of girls. Everywhere they looked,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Her mind, shaped so long before my own, was for me the equivalent of what had been offered me by the behaviour of the…

— Marcel Proust

Where the dance of Meera and the silence of Buddha meet, blossoms the true philosophy of Rajneesh.

— Amrita Pritam

“She had dispersed. She was the garden at Prem Nivas (soon to be entered into the annual Flower Show), she was Veena's love of…

— Vikram Seth

“The girls were taught by their mothers and grandmothers to look seriously upon life, to shun the frivolous, and to avoid giggling. With the…

— Frank Bird Linderman