India's a very interesting place... there's no formal opposition, but there's genuine on-the-ground opposition.

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.

...weak of spine and flaccid of upper lip.

Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.

You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.

Annual planning cycles doom you to short term fixes for long term problems

But whenever I say that I will do this or that, it looks very different when the time comes.

It's not tough at all as long as the fans are yelling, screaming and hollering.

There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.

I would want to see the Supreme Court reverse Citizens United and get dark, unaccountable money out of our politics.

If I'm just in dungarees, I don't think I would intimidate anyone.

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.