Different Quote by Shashi Deshpande

“I know that safety is always unattainable. You're never safe.”

— Shashi Deshpande

“Was’ and ‘is’ – in English there is very little difference between these two words. Only one letter more , just two letters different.…

— Shashi Deshpande

I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism,

— Shashi Deshpande

Marriage is a very strange thing. It’s a very public institution, it’s meant to tell the world that two people are going to live…

— Shashi Deshpande

It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty

— Shashi Deshpande

“To overcome your fear of death, you have to move from ‘the world ends with me’ to ‘the world goes on without me’. It…

— Shashi Deshpande

“A woman can never be angry; she can only be neurotic, hysterical, frustrated.”

— Shashi Deshpande

“Surely there comes a moment in every human's life when he or she says, like the Sibyl - I wish to die.”

— Shashi Deshpande

Things can never be as they were. It's astonishing how we comment on change, as if change is something remarkable. On the contrary, not…

— Shashi Deshpande

A wife should always be few feet behind her husband. If he is an MA you should be a BA.If he is 5'4'tall you…

— Shashi Deshpande

“Women without men, I realized then, are totally different creatures.”

— Shashi Deshpande

. . . a friend . . . showed me the kitchen in her new home with the words, "This is my office." I…

— Shashi Deshpande