Nandini Vishwanath

“Time heals the broken. Sometimes, the healing is slow. Sometimes, it is slower. You cannot predict how long it will take before one forgets what it all felt like—heartbreak, the pain, the anguish, and that emptiness. Years could roll by, and you’d have done ten million different things to keep yourself from thinking, and yet, the mind would remember that moment when your life fell apart and crushed you whole.”
― Jane Borges, Bombay Balchao

“they’ve turned increasingly to the importance of understanding anger and aggression, demonstrating how girls—operating in a vacuum of information about their negative emotions—channel their anger and aggression covertly, resorting to gossiping and spreading untruths about others, for example. Girls also police themselves to avoid the negative judgment of other girls.”
― Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

“Most everyone knows that making someone your bitch might not mean that person is female, just as they also know it means that being dominated and powerless are feminine states of being.”
― Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

“great empires often fell because of internal contradictions, not external enemies; due to the misguided policies of their rulers rather than the arms of any invader.”
― Manu S. Pillai, The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History