Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.

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.

When you want to change the world, have you changed yourself lately?

Persistence to fight for what you want is what separates those who win and those who don't.

'Rent' was my first professional job, ever.

Near counts more than far, familiar more than different. Such is the indictment against the press, that it fails to treat similar tragedies with equal dignity.

Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain

You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before

I hope what people learned from watching me is that just because you do things a little differently doesn't mean you can't do them just as well.

I don't think roles help you resolve your issues. I just think they're good markers.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

The Poet in his ArtMust intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.