Roopa Ganguly Quotes

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

Many years ago, when I was born in the '50s - '50s and '60s didn't belong to girls in India. They belonged to boys. They belonged to boys who would join business and inherit business from parents, and girls would be dolled up to get married.

The vast majority of women who marry still take their husband's name. And I'm not vilifying that behavior! But that's a pattern where women are truly still taking on their husbands' identities.

My mother sang. But back in the day, it was looked down upon if the lady of the house wanted to sing in public. So, she couldn't pursue her musical aspirations.

In India, tradition is paramount. Husband-wife relationship is okay. They do not allow girls to go out.

When I got engaged to be married, it was assumed that I would quit science and be a housewife. It was considered shameful if a married woman had to work - it implied that her husband couldn't earn enough to keep her.

Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.

French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.

I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.

Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

I was a good Indian girl, but naughty in that I would often sneak out of the back door and into the garden and go off with my friends when I should have been at home cooking or cleaning.

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

Male nudity, full-frontal nudity, has always been considered a lot more taboo than female nudity. As far back as I can remember, there's been a double standard between men and women. I think it's time that men get equal time in terms of nudity.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.

The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.

In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

In India, it's a matter of fact that a girl child is seen as a liability. Probably the only expectation is that you grow up to a presentable young woman who can get a decent spouse.

I don't think you need to get married necessarily. Girls just assume they will get married and have babies, but that isn't the right thing for everyone.

An African man should not do anything called housework or cooking.