Quotes by : Bharati Mukherjee

In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch....

As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness....

I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding....

The divorced Indian lady combines every fantasy about the liberated, wicked Western woman with the safety....

I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the....