Indian Women Quotes

#1. For the longest time, Indian women have been okay with being curvy. But I think the modern Indian woman needs to get toned. I don't endorse being thin. Anorexia and bulimia are a reality in India because everybody wants to be thin.

Bipasha Basu

#2. I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think like that they should be given a real opportunity to think like that.

Amartya Sen

#3. I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence.

Pierce Brosnan

#4. Remember that I am just a woman who is living a very abundant life. Every step I take forward is on a path paved by strong Indian women before me.

Wilma Mankiller

#5. The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.

Kangana Ranaut

#6. As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.

Vidya Balan

#7. I think I've become the brand ambassador of arranged marriages, especially for working Indian women.

Sakshi Tanwar

#8. I have been watching how Indian women are forced to do certain things, as the stories of sacrifice and devotion in mythology demand from them. And then there are inspiring stories about women like the Rani of Jhansi that offer women refreshing role models.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#9. Indian women love to dress up like princesses. In India, people still go to the market to buy fabrics, garments are made-to-order, and friends come with you to the fittings.

Sonam Kapoor

#10. As Indian women, we are always balancing work, life, home, etc. It's important to know that while juggling rubber balls and glass balls, the former may bounce back when you miss, but the glass balls will crack if you let them fall. So prioritise, prioritise, prioritise.

Nita Ambani

#11. Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#12. But inside loss there can be gain, too,like the small silver spider Bela had discovered one dewy morning, curled asleep at the center of a rose.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#13. What wouldn't my people give for a few bites of the biryani she ordered me to throw away yesterday because she said it smelt?

Renita D'Silva

#14. I watched the rows and rows of chappals left by devotees outside the Hindu temple and wondered if the homeless boys who sometimes steal our chickens ever steal them, and if they do, are they punished, and if so by whom?

Renita D'Silva

#15. Sometimes, it is easier to leave things as they are, rather than to fight, go against the flow.

Renita D'Silva

#16. Until we learn to respect our women, until every man learns to respect a woman, he will never know himself; there is no way, because half of him is just that. Indian

Sadhguru

#17. Where are the coconut trees bowing allegiance to the wind, the wide open spaces, the verdant green fields?

Renita D'Silva

#18. There's a great drought in my village. People are dying. The price of rice and pulses has rocketed. There is no water anywhere. And here, people are complaining about the rain ...

Renita D'Silva

#19. Imagine the outcry if the Pakistani or Indian governments were burning women alive at those rates. Yet when the government is not directly involved people shrug.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#20. Have you been reading those books that clueless illiterate Duja in charge of the lending library lets you borrow?' 'No, Ma.' 'Then what put you in mind of devils possessing nuns to take over the church?

Renita D'Silva

#21. Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#22. More than a third of all the men, women, and children on this march perished from cold, starvation, and disease. Thanks to President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act, Cherokee land was left to white farmers who used it to grow cotton with slave labor and to mine gold.

Gloria Steinem

#23. As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work.

Michelle Bachelet

#24. She was a sleuth and sleuths had to follow rules. 'Get to the point; don't allow the subject to digress' was one of them

Renita D'Silva

#25. Black men, Indian men, and gay men have all have something in common: They do not provide an economic security blanket for women.

Warren Farrell

#26. You don't live in luxury! You are relegated to sleep in the little store room behind the kitchen with the cockroaches and rats and are at the mercy of Mrs. Gupta,' Reena was indignant. 'It's five-star accommodation compared to a mud hut.

Renita D'Silva

#27. You are a girl, Shirin. Girls don't run around naked.'Why?'They just don't.

Renita D'Silva

#28. The divorced Indian lady combines every fantasy about the liberated, wicked Western woman with the safety net of basic submissive familiarity.

Bharati Mukherjee

#29. They think the recipe for a 'home-maker' is- a woman who isn't smart enough, lacks skills and above all isn't ambitious enough! Well she is every bit as smart as the woman who puts on a suit to go to work in a man's world to prove- times have changed! She is every bit as intelligent!

Mrinalini Mitra

#30. Religion serves all of us; men, women, gays, straights, blacks, whites, Americans and Indians. If it does not comply with our needs, wishes and happiness, then religion without a doubt is a plague that must be stopped.

M.F. Moonzajer

#31. Every family has secrets, Reena, and they're there for a reason.

Renita D'Silva

#32. What better hiding place than an old, woodlice-ridden album of photographs!

Renita D'Silva

#33. I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents' prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it .

Ali Shariati

#34. I like the Indian casino names - Pechangas - Morongos. They all sound like women's breasts.

Ted L. Nancy

#35. I wash the clothes, rinse them and then scrub them again. Will that square little box do that? I am not using any fancy machines when my hands will do.

Renita D'Silva

#36. Ebb and flow, ebb and flow, our lives. Is that why we're fascinated by the steadfastness of stars? The water reaches my calves. I begin the story of the Pleiades, women transformed into birds so Swift and bright that no man could snare them.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#37. Lemon Featherlight was an ex-Marine, a full-blood Mayaimi Indian, irritatingly handsome in a piratical sort of way, a condition even more grating because all the women loved him, and made even moreso because he was actually a decent guy, and nobody needed that.

Carsten Stroud

#38. As for wife beating, one survey found support for it from 62 percent of Indian village women themselves. And no group systematically abuses young women more cruelly than mothers-in-law, who serve as household matriarchs in much of the world and take charge of disciplining the younger women.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#39. Indian men are still used to the traditional role given to women; they want intelligent girls for company but not to marry ... they have yet to taste and relish the company of mature women.

Amrita Pritam

#40. What am I doing here, Reena? Why am I dancing to the tunes of that old hag?'You are saving your family.

Renita D'Silva

#41. I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.

Sherman Alexie

#42. There is no man who is enterprising and keeps well up with the times but confesses that the women of to-day are in every respect, except political liberty, equal to the men.

S. Alice Callahan

#43. But he's an untouchable, Shirin.' 'He's my Untouchable Prince Charming, then. Only I am allowed to touch him.

Renita D'Silva

#44. To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

Mary Brave Bird

#45. She liked the way a ray of mild autumn sun infiltrating the thick cluster of trees caught a reddish orange leaf swirling in the wind and transformed it golden yellow. She liked that it wasn't a leaf she recognised, that she could name or associate with her past.

Renita D'Silva

#46. If you can tag every Pakistani men as terrorists, you can definitely tag every Indian men as rapists... That's how the minority make an identity for the nation.

Gayathri Jayakumar

#47. What use is status if you have no one to share it with, Dad?

Renita D'Silva

#48. Faxian and Xuanzang might have been the first Chinese to travel to India, but sometimes it felt like I was the first.

Hong Mei

#49. I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don't think of myself as bringing to the table a lot of 'women's issues.' I don't feel the need to write about maternity. I grew up thinking that the talented people in comedy were hard-joke writers.

Mindy Kaling

#50. My mother clutches at the collar of my shirt. I rub her back and feel her tears on my neck. It's been decades since our bodies have been this close. It's an odd sensation, like a torn ligament knitting itself back, lumpy and imperfect, usable as long as we know not to push it too hard.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni