Prakash Raj Quotes

I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.

I don't have a lot of men in my life. I'm married, but I have daughters. I'm surrounded by a lot of females in my world.

Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

Women rule men's lives - every decision a man makes is based on a woman.

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.

I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.

I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.

Women in my family are the center of things. All good things emanate from them. The guys usually mess up.

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

I think I'll just become a full-time dad, at home, with my family.

'Hamari Adhuri Kahani' is a very emotional perspective on a traditional Indian woman.

My family was, I think, a bit more radical than most Mormons, especially on the question of gender. So in my mind, growing up, there wasn't ever any question of what my future would look like. I would get married when I was 17 or 18. And I would be given some corner of the farm, and my husband would put a house on it, and we would have kids.

Our family was like no one else's. My schoolfriends had fathers and grandfathers and uncles who did things, but in my family, women had been the doers.

As women, our identity becomes subsumed by the fact that we are wives, daughters and mothers, and that becomes our all-encompassing identity. It happens with women because we are naturally driven towards being caretakers and being sacrificing.

My father worked in a bank while my mother looked after my four brothers and me, the only girl in our family.

Until Ranveer was born in August 2005, three years into our marriage, I was working in Hindi or South Indian films. After marriage, I began learning how to run a house. My mother wanted to teach me the basics, but I was never home. So when my mother-in-law taught me chores, it was hard to adjust.

Pride and Prejudice' is set in the early 19th century. At that time, women had the legal status of children. A daughter was the property of her father until marriage, when her ownership passed to her husband.

No matter how far they rise, women never stop being the caregiver. At the end of the day, women bear the emotional responsibility for their families.

In 'Aarathu Sinam', I play a wife and mother. It's a very homely character, quite contrary to what I've done so far.

There are so many professional women who have to be this boss, but when they get home, it's like, 'Can someone take care of me? Can I not be so powerful?'

I was brought up to respect my father and not to love him.