LIES OUR MOTHERS TOLD US The Indian Woman’s Burden Quotes

“Their expectations and aspirations, dreams and desires for themselves are always flexible—the first to go, the last to be protected.”
― Nilanjana Bhowmick, LIES OUR MOTHERS TOLD US The Indian Woman’s Burden

“education constitutes empowerment, then most middle-class women in India have willingly allowed themselves to be disempowered in exchange for what are essentially some frivolous freedoms. They have resignedly convinced themselves to abandon their own dreams and career aspirations to cater to the demands at home.”
― Nilanjana Bhowmick, LIES OUR MOTHERS TOLD US The Indian Woman’s Burden

“The challenge, thus, is not to make them learn but to make them unlearn the biases they have internalized and accepted under the guise of traditional values.”
― Nilanjana Bhowmick, LIES OUR MOTHERS TOLD US The Indian Woman’s Burden