I sometimes think I was perhaps the only girl in India whose mother said, "Whatever you do, don't get married". For me, when I see a bride, it gives me a rash. I find them ghoulish, almost.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.

On even the darkest of days, the brightest thing in my life is you.

Books are absent teachers.

What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.

I can live without a boy. So why does it feel like I'm going to die?

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

There are 2 kind of batsmen in the world. One Sachin Tendulkar. Two all the others

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!

The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize... It was only a dream