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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Indian-born American author and poet107 QUOTES

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an Indian-born American author and poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Her work has reached readers across fiction and poetry, and 107 quotes from her appear on this site. She is best known for Arranged Marriage, her short story collection, which won an American Book Award in 1996. Two of her novels and one short story were adapted into films, extending her reach beyond the page into cinema.

“I was about 12 when I first encountered 'The Moonstone' - or a Classics Illustrated version of it - digging through an old trunk in my grandfather's house on a rainy Bengali afternoon.”

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“Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from 'The Mistress of Spices.'”

WRITING

“The Mahabharata might have been a great and heroic battle, but there are no winners. The losers, of course, lose.”

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“A kshatriya woman's highest purpose in life is to support the warriors in her life: her father, brother, husband and sons.”

PURPOSEMARRIAGE

“'The Mahabharata,' which inspired my novel 'Palace of Illusions,' also has many stories embedded within the main tale.”

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“Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture.”

INDIAN WISDOMTIME

“With the strong women I write about, I want to create a sense of strong possibilities.”

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