“I am sure when Cinderella went to that ball, she took a great deal more pleasure in outsmarting her stepmother than in the carriage and the ball dress and the glass slippers.” Life LessonsHuman NatureCinderellaCinderella Story Book:Cinderella's Escape Source: Cinderella's Escape
“The seasons follow a pattern with the blazing, sweltering summer days and nights giving way to the monsoon. How can one bear the summer without the knowledge of dark clouds, heavy with soothing, cooling rain, gathering over the distant oceans, the wind herding them together like so many woolly creatures, their heads firmly in the direction of a parched land paradoxically laden with sweet, aromatic mangoes?” HopeLife PhilosophySeasonsPatterns In Life Book:Happiness is a Collage Source: Happiness is a Collage
“When you banish me, you who are maryadapurushottham will be writing a law which will render innocent women of coming generations homeless and destitute.” WomanhoodShort StoriesAnthologySitaRamayan Book:The Vigil and Other Stories Source: The Vigil and Other Stories
“Maybe all Cinderellas have fairy godmothers. Mine must have positioned me outside the kitchen so that I could overhear Marcella. I raced up to my room and replaced the books I had taken.” Cinderella S Fairy Book:Cinderella's Escape Source: Cinderella's Escape