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

Bharati Mukherjee

We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It’s a question of time, not motive.
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Motive Time
Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one’s individuality.
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Individuality Mind Roots
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 Father Mother
A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.
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Farmers Farming Modesty
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 Young
What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?
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Children Mind Poetry
[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar.
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Agendas Exotic Writing
The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.
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Feels Home Traveler
You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted… I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.
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Moment Needed School Taking
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:
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Father Home Writing
In the context of lost causes, Mother Teresa took on battles she knew she could win. Taken together, it seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement.
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Battles Criticisms Mother Overall Toppel
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.
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Citizens Government Mean
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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Different Filters Light
Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.
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Fiction Mainstream Reader
In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.
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Inattention India Real
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 School Up

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

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