"In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine did, has three daughters, no sons, is supposed to go and hang herself, kill herself, because it is such an unlucky kind of motherhood to have."

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Source : "Transcript: Bill Moyers Interviews Bharati Mukherjee". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

Bharati Mukherjee

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“There is a lot of territory out there still to explore TV-wise, show-wise, movie-wise, everything.”
“In terms of what's going to actually happen to me in the story, down towards the end of the season, I'm dying to know, but I just don't ask. If it's something that I think will really affect how I play it and it's information I need to know, than I'll ask, for sure.”
“But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.”
“I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.”

Source : "Mary-Louise Parker: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2010.
“I've been in dance schools since I was four. I went to the Brit school. I did adverts and plays.”
“My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don't think I will ever be anything other than that.”

Source : "Hayley Atwell: 'The real me is a loner, a nerd and a bit overweight'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2010.
“The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new world; rather, it is that the majority have not been given the tools to negotiate this new world.”
“Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.”

Source : "100 Ways to Develop Your Mind: The Psychology of the Mind" by Steven Aitchison, (p. 74), 2009.

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