Shauna Singh Baldwin Quotes & Sayings

I do not need to understand words to know he is disappointed I am not a boy. Some things need no translation. And I know, because my body remembers without benefit of words, that men who do not welcome girl-babies will not treasure me as I grow to woman - though he call me princess just because the Guru told him to.

I have come so far, I have borne so much pain and emptiness!

But men have not yet changed. — Shauna Singh Baldwin

Vaheguru, forgive me, but a woman must choose the wisdom of lies over the dangers of truth. — Shauna Singh Baldwin

She leans over Roop the way Sardarji leaned over Satya the years she cried for children, brushing tears from Roop's heavy lashes with her lips. She strokes her head as a mother would, says. "Slpee little one, we are together now."
And Roop sleeps, overcome by the afternoon heat.
While Satya watches her.
So trusting, so very stupid. — Shauna Singh Baldwin

The kind of violence one should fear is always quiet and comes all wrapped up in words like Love until you live with it daily and you value only that which is valuable to the violator. — Shauna Singh Baldwin

Why does Papaji tell Jeevan this story? Roop wonders. Whenever Gujri tells Roop a story, se reminds Roop that stories are not told for th telling, but for the teaching. — Shauna Singh Baldwin

Fiction ... It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins. — Shauna Singh Baldwin

After eating a hundred mice, the cat makes a hadj to Mecca. — Shauna Singh Baldwin

Learning is just remembering slowly, like simmer coming to boil. — Shauna Singh Baldwin