Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.

How accommodating love is; it forgives everything.

I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin day and night like a dark stain, a contamination I could not shed; it became so unbearable that when finally I rid myself of it, I was freed forever of the desire to possess another person or the temptation ever to belong to anyone.

If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.

She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.