As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.
Interpretation
Women often face self-criticism regarding their bodies and choices, but acceptance is key.
In this quote, Vidya Balan highlights the pervasive tendency among women to judge themselves harshly based on societal standards of beauty and success. She emphasizes the importance of self-acceptance, suggesting that Indian women possess unique body types and characteristics that should be appreciated rather than criticized, promoting a positive self-image and confidence.
In practice
During a women's empowerment event to encourage self-love and acceptance.
She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that teacher. Perhaps she is smiling at the absurdity of such a suggestion. Don't let that put you off. It could be part of cleverness. I am not, of course, telling you for one second that your teacher actually is a witch. All I am saying is that she might be one. It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.
The third class consists of men to whom nothing seems great but reason. If force interests them, it is not in its exertion, but in that it has a reason and a law. For men of the first class, nature is a picture; for men of the second class, it is an opportunity; for men of the third class, it is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to them the only thing that makes life worth living. These are the men whom we see possessed by a passion to learn.
Most people are highly optimistic most of the time.
In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
There is a level of grief so deep that it stops resembling grief at all. The pain becomes so severe that the body can no longer feel it. The grief cauterizes itself, scars over, prevents inflated feeling. Such numbness is a kind of mercy.
Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.
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