Bharati Mukherjee Quotes
My mother's rules had to do with feminine deportment, so I never played hard enough to break a toy or muddy my dress. My father's rules had to do with never shaming the family by even a hint of scandal, and not providing business rivals with an opportunity to kidnap me or throw acid in my face.
Mukherjee, Bharati. "American Dreamer." Mother Jones, Jan.-Feb. 1997, p. 32.
Akin had made some incredibly incorrect and stupid statements regarding rape and female physiology (see {633199}). His opponent Senator Claire McCaskill attacked him aggressively for that. Akin generally regarded as a extreme conservative fundamentalist then made matters worse by equating aggressive female behaviors in campaigning to not being “ladylike”. He lost the election where the Republicans had a good chance of winning.
Bharati Mukherjee was an Indian American-Canadian writer and professor emerita in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She was the author of a number of novels and short story collections, as well as works of nonfiction.
