Doniger Wendy Quotes

#1. Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda,

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#2. The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think,

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#3. Aw, sad face. I came up with that totally off the cuff. No props for off the cuff?

Chloe Neill

#4. Its hatred is directed not only against Hindus of the more diverse traditions - the ones that the British, and Rammohan Roy, taught the Hindus to despise - but also, ironically, against the very monotheisms (Islam and Christianity) that nurtured the Hindu insistence that Hinduism is monotheistic.

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#5. (Sarah Palin's) greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.

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#6. Voltaire was deeply impressed by it and cited it often.

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#7. That cloak of love you were wearing - he's torn it to shreds, undoing the seams of trust that held it together. How can you ever wear those shreds?

Antonia Michaelis

#8. Keep it simple and focus on what matters. Don't let yourself be overwhelmed.

Confucius

#9. The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak.

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#10. "Nags" nag because they feel they aren't being heard.

Amy Dickinson

#11. Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I find. Either my wife or I cook, and we usually finish a bottle or two of wine by the time we are done cooking and eating.

Jacques Pepin

#12. I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.

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#13. Although proselytizing is not in itself necessarily intolerant, it does close the open-ended door of pluralism

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#14. Keep pollinating the world with your kindness.

H. L. Balcomb

#15. I've never had a single moment of depression, because I know my cause will triumph.

Nelson Mandela

#16. The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

Rose Tremain

#17. As long as it was just a matter of graft and the lust for power, the British treated the people they robbed as human beings. It was religion that made them treat them like devils

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#18. Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and liquid, symbolic of the blood that was probably used in past centuries.

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#19. Kautilya makes Machiavelli look like Mother Teresa

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#20. Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people?

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#21. Politics has become a game of meaningless, mindless battles, conducted by unscrupulous methods and people, designed to transform even the most serious policy debates into sport.

Al Gore

#22. I have felt some twinges recently, about parts I wanted to play that I may be getting too old and fat to do. 'Hamlet,' for example - maybe that's gone. I would love to play Richard II.

Matthew Macfadyen

#23. intrareligious and interreligious. Hinduism interacted

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