Bharati Mukherjee Quotes

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Ro doesn't stand like Brent or Dad. His hands hang kind of stiffly from the shoulder joints, and when he moves, his palms are tucked tight against his thighs, his stomach sticks out like a slightly pregnant woman's. Each culture establishes its own manly posture, different ways of claiming space.

Bharati Mukherjee

A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.

Bharati Mukherjee

But, Christ, there's a difference between exotic and foreign, isn't there? Exotic means you know how to use your foreignness, or you make yourself a little foreign in order to appear exotic. Real foreign is a little scary, believe me.

Bharati Mukherjee

What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?

Bharati Mukherjee

We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It's a question of time, not motive.

Bharati Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee

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Born: July 27, 1940

Died: January 28, 2017 (aged 76)

Bio: Bharati Mukherjee was an Indian writer and professor emerita in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

Known for:

Jasmine (1989)
Desirable Daughters (2002)
The Holder of the World (1993)
The Middleman and Other Stories (1988)
The Tiger's Daughter (1971)

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