Anatole Broyard Quotes

Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.

I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.

The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession.

My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

None of my sisters are in the movies, nor are my nieces going to be. That's how Dutt 'sahab,' my dad, brought up the girls in the family, and I am just carrying his thought forward.

Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!

People are saying I am against the chador. I am not. On the contrary. I am for traditional family values.

Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure.

A lot of the projects I've been involved with have been my babies, and I'm not going to give my baby to anyone else.

Like, in Asian culture, you have to be down with the family. You have to be down with all the crazy traditional or non-traditional things we do.

Women are a strange thing. Like watches, houses, and cars, you really only need one at any moment in your life (French men disagree).

Being a single mother in the late 1950s was a very shocking thing - and dreadful thing - for people.

If I say to my daughter, "Go say 'hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say 'hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.

It's a book. It's mine. And it's done.

Don't step on my blue suede shoes.

I hate to lend a book I love...it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.

I would not like it thought that I do not buy my own paperclips, sir. I enjoy owning my own paperclips. It means they are mine.

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.

And you are mine, and you will be mine. They will not get you. - Eric from Dead and Gone

In India's distant past, when the population was low, the blessing given a woman was, 'May you have many children.' Most of our epics and literature stress this wish, and the idea that a woman should have many children hasn't declined.

In every language, the first word after "Mama!" that every kid learns to say is "Mine!" A system that doesn't allow ownership, that doesn't allow you to say "Mine!" when you grow up, has - to put in mildly - a fatal design flaw.

Love and exclusive possession can never go together.

You ought to be ashamed of yourself, running around, not married, staying out all night. Ashamed!" "Ashamed!" my grandmother echoed. Good to know they still agreed on things after forty-three years of marriage.

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.