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Deetya Kamat
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“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“Sometimes I think," she said slowly, "that if a man were to spend a day being a woman in America, he wouldn't make it past noon.”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
“An Indian woman’s act of political protest was rewritten as hysteria, her sense of duty perceived as desire. In this construct, an Indian woman’s feelings and expressions were never her own; she experienced her womanhood as pathology.”
― They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
― They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
“I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I had once thought that I came from a line of Gods, and I had punished myself for failing to be Godlike. But we were not Gods, and I was not the avatar for our family’s unraveling. I was just another product of inherited trauma, unresolved grief, and reactive survival mechanisms, like everyone else who came before me. We were mortals who felt ashamed when we failed to appear omnipotent. Now I see that my job was to release my ancestors from this burden, to allow those who come next the freedom to be ordinary.”
― They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
― They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
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