Bharati Mukherjee Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. July 27, 1940
Birthday: July 27
In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future.
topic: Daughter, Mother, Father, Patriarch, Bengali, Taking Charge
