Wendy Doniger famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they experience most of the great human dilemmas and often seem to differ from mortals in a few trivial details... and from demons even less. Yet they are regarded by the Hindus as a class of beigns by definition totally different from any other; they are symbols in a way that no human beign, however 'archetypal' his life story, can ever be. They are actors playing parts that are real only for us; they are masks behind which we see our own faces.
-- Wendy Doniger

#Real #Class #Stories
The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans thinkâ€¦Throughout the Mahabharata ... Krishna goads human beings into all sorts of murderous and self-destructive behaviors such as war.... The Gita is a dishonest bookÂ â€¦
-- Wendy Doniger

#War #Nice #Book
I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.
-- Wendy Doniger

#War #Believe #Pacifist
The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think,
-- Wendy Doniger

#Nice #Book #Thinking
Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and liquid, symbolic of the blood that was probably used in past centuries.
-- Wendy Doniger

#Spring #Past #Hair
Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people?
-- Wendy Doniger

#Animal #People
Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda,
-- Wendy Doniger

#Sacred #Vedas #Study
The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak.
-- Wendy Doniger

#Dog #Voice #Silence
Wine is the liquid form of the Goddess Tara, who is the saviour of all living creatures, the mother of all enjoyment and Release, the destroyer of dangers and disease, who burns up all sins and purifies the worlds, O Beloved , who grants all success and increases knowledge, understanding and learning.
-- Wendy Doniger

#Mother #Wine #Understanding
(Sarah Palin's) greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.
-- Wendy Doniger

#Hypocrisy #Palin #Pretense

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