"As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I've spent my whole life fighting tradition. There's no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife."

-- Arundhati Roy

#Fighting Quotes #India Quotes #Village Quotes

“Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.”

Source : "Best of the West". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2007.
“Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one's life”
“If an appointed daughter by accident dies without ,leaving a son, the husband of the appointed daughter may, without hesitation, take that estate.”
“Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.”
“It is really not the wilderness that needs management (it has been doing quite well, after all, for a couple of billion years), but people.”
“The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.”
“Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested - sometimes it's a little bit frustrating, you know?”
“I am powerless against the great magazines - I am an artist, and I will always be that.”

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