Shashi Deshpande Quotes

#1. It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty

Shashi Deshpande

#2. Things can never be as they were. It's astonishing how we comment on change, as if change is something remarkable. On the contrary, not to change is unnatural, against nature.

Shashi Deshpande

#3. Surely there comes a moment in every human's life when he or she says, like the Sibyl - I wish to die.

Shashi Deshpande

#4. Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces.

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#5. Women without men, I realized then, are totally different creatures.

Shashi Deshpande

#6. A friend ... showed me the kitchen in her new home with the words, "This is my office." I knew what she meant. This is where I do the work I want to, the work I like and enjoy.

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#7. To overcome your fear of death, you have to move from 'the world ends with me' to 'the world goes on without me'. It is a great leap, the biggest step a human can take.

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#8. I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism,

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