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The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.

Bharati Mukherjee

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Feels Traveler

I am aware of myself as a four-hundred-year-old woman, born in the captivity of a colonial, pre-industrial oral culture and living now as a contemporary New Yorker.
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Captivity Four Years
The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns.

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The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns.
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Two
I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel very American. I belong.
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Filters
Mother Teresas detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless.

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Mother Teresas detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless.
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Taken Winning
What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?

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What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?
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Inspire
But, Christ, there’s a difference between exotic and foreign, isn’t there? Exotic means you know how to use your foreignness, or you make yourself a little foreign in order to appear exotic. Real foreign is a little scary, believe me.
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Mean Real
In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter.
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Daughter
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.
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Growing Running Up
Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one’s individuality.

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Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one’s individuality.
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Individuality Roots
There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn’t regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn’t conceive of me of a North American writer, not being white and brought up on wheat germ. My fiction got lost.
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White
[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar.
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Agendas Exotic
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Definitions Littles
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.
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Back Selected Studying
She would have in tow one or two slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We thought her a freak. Probably wed picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.
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Probably Runs Unvoiced
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.
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Daughter
The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.
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Feels Traveler

The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.

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