"The most powerful force in a woman's life is the need to be appreciated, loved and cherished for what she is."

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Source : Amish Tripathi (2012). “The Immortals of Meluha: The Shiva Trilogy”, p.100, Hachette UK

Amish Tripathi

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“When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.”

Source : "The Charlie Hebdo Affair: Laughing at Blasphemy" by Emily Greenhouse, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2012.
“I may not be a human, but I am a man.”
“Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored the meal, a couple of cups of water or milk and slow stirring to break up lumps.”
“We can live nuanced, complicated, exciting lives with no reason for limitation.”
“Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.”
“Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.”
“I have a perhaps naive point of view informed by my own kind of snowflake-in-the-unique-sense rather than the political sense, personal story. I mean I feel like my experiences are so hard to map onto any kind of generalized identity. For example, I'm a black person, but I come from a very particular black experience which is not unlike the experience of the Barack Obama. I have an African mother and a white father and I feel like I have a different experience of being a black person as a result of that identity than someone who is from the descendants of slaves.”
“[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.”

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