Women of the Raj Quotes

“A conviction of superiority is not, after all, a good beginning for friendship.”
― Margaret MacMillan, Women of the Raj

“Mrs. Martha Graham, who traveled to India in the early 1800s, discovered support for the Enlightenment’s belief that virtue was not synonymous with Christianity: “Everywhere in the ancient Hindu books we find the maxims of that pure and sound morality which is founded on the nature of man as a rational and social being.”
― Margaret MacMillan, Women of the Raj

“Margaret Smith was so appalled at the role she was expected to play as the wife of a tea planter in the 1920s that she left her husband and became a militant feminist in Britain.”
― Margaret MacMillan, Women of the Raj