Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda.

- Wendy Doniger

As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they experience most of the great human dilemmas …

- Wendy Doniger

Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people?

- Wendy Doniger

The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only…

- Wendy Doniger

Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and liquid, …

- Wendy Doniger

The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think...Throughout the Mahabharata ... Krishna goads human beings into all sorts of murdero…

- Wendy Doniger

Wine is the liquid form of the Goddess Tara, who is the saviour of all living creatures, the mother of all enjoyment and Release, the destroyer of da…

- Wendy Doniger

(Sarah Palin's) greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.

- Wendy Doniger

I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.

- Wendy Doniger