Shashi Deshpande Inspirational Quotes (4)

I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism.

Things can never be as they were. It's astonishing how we comment on change, as if change is something remarkable. On the contrary, not to change is unnatural, against nature.

. . . a friend . . . showed me the kitchen in her new home with the words, This is my office. I knew what she meant. This is where I do the work I want to, the work I like and enjoy.

It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty