The Bandit Queens
Parini Shroff
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Wasn't sanity like beauty, in the eye of the beholder?”
“Women were built to endure the rules men make.”
“This was the version of her who had survived and there was no sense in apologizing for being a survivor.”
“She wasn't respected here, but she was feared, and fear had been very kind to Geeta.”
“Men like him would always look at her and see the things they were glad they weren't: weak, small, timid, powerless. Let them. She'd expended so much energy vying for a broken seat at an uneven table.”
“Well, I don't have the joys of motherhood," Geeta said after the women were emptied of excuses. Her voice was patient, but her smile was feral. "But I do have the joys of sleep and money.”
“If the natural world afforded them no protection, then a supernatural story might. A way of terrifying men into considering a woman's well-being from time to time.”
“Wounds from one battle prepare you for the other”
“forgiveness doesn’t mean I’m right back where I started.”
“Though Diwali celebrated light banishing darkness, Ravana was not a flat villain. And Ram was not an infallible hero.”
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