Shashi Deshpande Quotes

#1. If you deny the reality of your body or your life, you'll never be able to dress any of it well - even the parts you love. You have to see it all to work with any of it.

Stacy London

#2. If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at.

Kathy Mattea

#3. Peace is our inner wealth. This inner wealth we can bring to the fore only when we expect nothing from the outer world and everything from the Supreme Pilot within us, at God's Choice Hour

Sri Chinmoy

#4. And then," she continued, "there are all the subtle reformers who tell you the wild stories they've heard about you and how they've been sticking up for you.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. 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,

Shashi Deshpande

#6. 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.

Shashi Deshpande

#7. No matter what happens now
You shouldn't be afraid
Because I know today has been the most perfect day I've ever seen.

Radiohead

#8. 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.

Shashi Deshpande

#9. Madeline displayed the bright sadder-but-wiser outlook of an alert first grader who'd discovered the alphabet in a school where Ecclesiastes is the primer - life is futility, a deeply terrible experience, but the really serious thing is reading.

Philip Roth

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

Shashi Deshpande

#11. I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters.

George Orwell

#12. 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.

Shashi Deshpande

#13. Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.

Roger Rosenblatt

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

Shashi Deshpande

#15. If you set a goal of becoming an expert in your business, you would immediately start doing all kinds of things you don't do now.

Geoff Colvin

#16. 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

#17. Some of my closest friends are songwriters. I'm in love with the way they can create music and magic.

Danielle Barone

#18. Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.

Iggy Pop

#19. 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