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Quotes from A Four Hundred-Year-Old Woman" in The Writer on Her Work: New Essays in New Territory — Bharati Mukherjee

1940–2017 United States

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I was born into a class that did not live in its native language. I was born into a city that feared its future, and trained me for emigration.

A Four Hundred-Year-Old Woman" in The Writer on Her Work: New Essays in New Territory (1991)

The most moving form of praise I receive from readers can be summed up in three words: I never knew. Meaning, I see these people (call them Indians, Filipinos, Koreans, Chinese) around me all the time and I never knew they had an inner life.

A Four Hundred-Year-Old Woman" in The Writer on Her Work: New Essays in New Territory (1991)

my true material is immigration. In other words, transformation not preservation.

A Four Hundred-Year-Old Woman" in The Writer on Her Work: New Essays in New Territory (1991)

My theme is the making of new Americans

A Four Hundred-Year-Old Woman" in The Writer on Her Work: New Essays in New Territory (1991)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bharati Mukherjee (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.