Pratyusha Banerjee Quotes

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

My mother was a disciplinarian. She believed that when young girls start to go out with young boys, they get married.

If I refused to get married, my parents would be brokenhearted and confused. Like any child close to her parents, I could not watch them suffer.

My parents really wanted me to have an arranged marriage when I was younger, but I think they have updated a bit with the times.

I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off.

A woman’s good goes to her husband and her bad to her kin.

In certain environments young adults can't choose their lives because of family pressure. In the bourgeoisie there is still a sense you will marry within that milieu.

Arranged marriages are ones where you got to learn who the person is after you actually get married, which can be challenging.

I was supposed to go to Northwestern and become a dental hygienist, get married, have babies. My father was very against me being in show business. Usually in Chinese culture, education is the most highly valued.

I think, a lot of times as women, we feel pressure from our parents, our friends: we see our friends get married.

My dad met my mom just once before their marriage.

No offense, but I don't get the whole concept of arranged marriage. I'd rather know the person who I'll settle down with.

I have no idea if I will go for an arranged marriage or love marriage.

There is no pressure from my family to get married.

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

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.

My parents have had a love marriage, so I have made it pretty clear to them that I, too, will have a love marriage.

I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.

Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions.

I've never really thought I'd get married. It's not that I'm suspicious of it or anything like that, it's just that I don't have a reference for it because my mum wasn't.

When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a 'good man' before they are all taken.

I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though they may be, should continue to live at home until they were married.