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Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

I feel partly American, but I have an ambiguous relation with both America and India, the only two countries I really know. I never feel fully one way or the other.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: July 11, 1967

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American Feel America India Know

There are so many male antiheroes but not nearly as many female antiheroes.There's a lot of pressure on female characters to be likable. That puts a lot of pressure on women to be likable.

Melissa Rauch

Women Pressure Many Female Likable

I always thought, 'I'm on my own, and that's the way it should be.'

Anderson Cooper

Thought Way My Own Always Own

There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!

Amiri Baraka

Family Window Facts Bathroom See

The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

Sojourner Truth

Rich Poor Rob Another

As a result of playing Freddy Krueger, I can remember having to look at some medical books, and at some of the disfigurement that fire can cause on people, because they were the source material for some of the prosthetic makeup that I wore. That aided and abetted this fear of death by fire. Which is sort of what happened to Fred Krueger.

Robert Englund

Fear Fire Death Medical People Look

I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.

Mickey Rourke

Myself Feeling Way Shame Hard Deal

A people fatigued by bad presidential judgment aren't inclined to reward him or his party.

Monica Crowley

People Reward Bad Party Judgment

I think Giuliani started a trend that Bloomberg continued with rampant gentrification, and I think it's tough because why would any city choose not to do that?

Jonathan Levine

City Tough Think Choose Why Trend

I'm a grown woman. The haters are definitely wrong if they think I care.

Christina Milian

Woman Think Care Haters Wrong Grown

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.

Anne McCaffrey

School Child Chance Write Started

I am a passionate devotee of the Howard Hawks' screwball comedies of the 1930s and the 1940s, where I think that the relations between men and women were at their civilized height in terms of banter and exchange of wit and equality.

Allison Pearson

Women Men I Am Equality Think Wit

Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors.

Arthur Levitt

Purpose Challenges Face Fair Clear