Bharati Mukherjee

Quotes

• “In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pli...”
• “As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them ou...”
• “I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's offi...”
• “I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government th...”
• “The divorced Indian lady combines every fantasy about the liberated, wicked Western woman with the safety net of basic s...”