Quotes from Suniti Namjoshi

Poetry is the sound of the human animal.

It's a quality of the gods To see a creature with its back broken And be unmoved.

The blue wave curves, topples slowly. I could banish the wave, banish the sea, destroy in a wink this island paradise, but something small grovels within me. I should like the sea to be a slick blue. I should very much like this pain to subside.

Feminist Fables] uses the very power of language and the literary tradition to expose what is absurd and unacceptable.

When we make love you and I are both sacred and secular.

The Incredible Woman raged through the skies, lassoed a planet, set it in orbit, rescued a starship, flattened a mountain, straightened a building, smiled at a child, caught a few thieves, all in one morning, and then, took a little time off to visit her psychiatrist, since she is at heart a really womanly woman and all she wants is a normal life.

Biped Now that you have hit me, I must dab at my mouth and smile quietly, or not smile at all, but in some way show I am noble, not base. And the dog inside, who whimpers so piteously, and would like to lick your hands —it feels so out of favour— that dog must be silenced before its howling betrays disgrace. But I am that dog. It was I who howled, I who was hurt. I felt the pain. And it is I who despised myself.