Sushmita Banerjee Quotes

#1. I was traumatised in the medieval Afghan society at Sarana village by the local boys of Omar's Taliban who forced my in-laws to subjugate me for trying to be different. There can be Omars in other religions, too, who oppress women.

Sushmita Banerjee

#2. Experience is always larger than language.

Adrienne Rich

#3. The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. Like a lightning bug ... Like a lightning bug? ... Yes, just like a night lightning bug; because there are day lightning bugs too - even if nobody has ever seen one, I know there are some, and I know the day lightning bugs are the cockroaches that since they can't light up, people kill them.

Reinaldo Arenas

#5. Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny is always right now, right here, right this very instant, maybe.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#6. We know this world intimately and that is its uncanniness. We cannot bear our knowledge.

David Mura

#7. A failed short story is a few weeks of fruitless work; a failed novel is a dead child.

The New York Writers Workshop

#8. The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past.

Sushmita Banerjee