Bharati Mukherjee Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. July 27, 1940
Birthday: July 27
In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine did, has three daughters, no sons, is supposed to go and hang herself, kill herself, because it is such an unlucky kind of motherhood to have.
source: "Transcript: Bill Moyers Interviews Bharati Mukherjee". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003. 
topic: Daughter, Mother, Son, Desirable, Three Daughters
