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

- Shashi Deshpande

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.

- Shashi Deshpande

Marriage is a very strange thing. It's a very public institution, it's meant to tell the world that two people are going to live together, to declare…

- Shashi Deshpande

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 …

- Shashi Deshpande

. . . 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 …

- Shashi Deshpande

A wife should always be few feet behind her husband. If he is an MA you should be a BA.If he is 5'4'tall you shouldn't be more than 5'3'tall. If he i…

- Shashi Deshpande

Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really l…

- Shashi Deshpande