Shashi Deshpande Quotes

• Una mujer siempre debe estar unos metros por detrás de su marido. Si él mide 1,70, tú no deberías medir más de 1,70. Si él gana quinientas rupias, tú no deberías ganar más de cuatrocientas noventa y nueve. Si él gana quinientas rupias, tú nunca debes ganar más de cuatrocientas noventa y nueve rupias. Ésta es la única regla que debes seguir si quieres un matrimonio feliz... Ninguna sociedad puede ser igualitaria. Siempre será desigual, pero ten cuidado de que sea desigual a favor del marido. Si la balanza se inclina a vuestro favor, que Dios os ayude, a los dos.

  Shashi Deshpande

  Husband, Ninety Nine, Feet

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• 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

  Writing, Feminist, Isms

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• 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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  Real, Mirrors, Self

  Shashi Deshpande (1989). “That Long Silence”, p.1, Penguin Books India

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• Marriage is a very strange thing. It's a very public institution, it's meant to tell the world that two people are going to live together, to declare that their children will be legal, that these children can inherit their property. It's meant for social living, to ensure that some rules are observed, so that men and women don't cross the lines drawn from them. At the same time, marriage is an intensely private affair, no outsider will know the state of some one else's marriage. It's a closed room, a locked room...

  Shashi Deshpande

  Niños, Hombres, Dos

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• 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

  Birth, Life Is, Process

  Shashi Deshpande (1989). “That Long Silence”, p.102, Penguin Books India

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• Las cosas nunca pueden ser como antes. Es asombroso cómo comentamos el cambio, como si el cambio fuera algo extraordinario. Por el contrario, no cambiar es antinatural, contra natura.

  Shashi Deshpande

  Remarkable, Comment, Contrary

  Shashi Deshpande (1989). “That Long Silence”, p.47, Penguin Books India

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• . . . 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

  Friendship, Home, Office

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