That Long Silence Quotes

“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 unnatural, against nature.”
― Shashi Deshpande, That Long Silence

“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, That Long Silence

“Surely there comes a moment in every human's life when he or she says, like the Sibyl - I wish to die.”
― Shashi Deshpande, That Long Silence

“A woman can never be angry; she can only be neurotic, hysterical, frustrated.”
― Shashi Deshpande, That Long Silence

“I have often watched in fascination the leaps and bounds of her mind as, starting from the banks of uncomfortable facts, she reaches the safety of easier-tolive-with invention.”
― Shashi Deshpande, That Long Silence

“And then, as we grew into young women, we realised it was not love, but marriage that was the destiny waiting for us.”
― Shashi Deshpande, That Long Silence