At a certain point the family moved to Jaipur, where no woman could avoid the doli or purdah. They kept her in the house from morning to night, either cooking or doing nothing. [My mother] hated doing nothing, she hated to cook. So she became pale and ill, and far from being concerned about her health, my grandfather said, 'Who's going to marry her now?' So my grandmother waited for my grandfather to go out, and then she dressed my mother as a man and let her go out riding with her brothers.

Women sometimes go too far, it's true. But it's only when you go too far that others listen.

People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.

The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.

When [my father] asked me to help him, I really didn't suspect the consequences.

I always stayed married to my husband! Always, until the day he died! It's not true that we were separated!