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I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Airport Back Before Carry Caste Class Come Commands Creative Creative Writing Father Flew Had He Home Iowa Left Marry Me Night Our Out Ready Selected Small Spend Studying Surrounded Then Two Workshop Writers Writing Written Years

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I'm very moved by chaos theory, and that sense of energy. That quantum physics. We don't really, in Hindu tradition, have a father figure of a God. It's about cosmic energy, a little spark of which is inside every individual as the soul.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: About Chaos Cosmic Energy Every Father Father Figure Figure God Hindu Individual Inside Little Moved Physics Quantum Quantum Physics Really Sense Soul Spark Theory Tradition Very Which

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I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Am Citizen Citizens Citizenship Government Had Means Prove Unlike U.s. Government Which I Am

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As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Adventures Anna Bad Bounds Child Decency Drive Films Girl Happiness Hollywood How Imagination Knew Large Lived Naughty Outside Pursuit Pursuit Of Happiness Social Swept Them Thrill Used Whose

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I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: About Hard Individuals Larger Life Novelist Novels Say Than Tried Very

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In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine did, has three daughters, no sons, is supposed to go and hang herself, kill herself, because it is such an unlucky kind of motherhood to have.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Because Daughters Desirable Did Families Go Hang Herself Hindu Kind Like Mine Mother Motherhood Patriarchal Societies Sons Supposed Three Trouble Unlucky Who

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In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Charge Daughter Disappoint Disobey Ever Expect Families Father Future Goals Grown Hindu Like Men Middle-Class My Own Myself Neighborhood Ours Own Provided Setting Taking Traditional Up Were Women

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Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Anarchy Bengali Brought Convent Family Going Growing Growing Up Hindu Irish Nuns Old-Fashioned Only Revere Rules Run School Stern Up Without

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I thought of America as Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner sprawled on the edge of a Hollywood swimming pool biting into the same red apple.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: America Apple Biting Bob Edge Hollywood Natalie Pool Red Same Swimming Swimming Pool Thought Wagner Wood

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My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land between the country of my past and the continent of my present.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Acknowledge Between Continent Could Country Daughter Embodies Even Felt First Land Loneliness Man Myself Novel Past Present Tiger

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Writer

Born: July 27th, 1940

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