Doniger Wendy Quotes & Sayings

Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and liquid, symbolic of the blood that was probably used in past centuries. — Wendy Doniger

The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak. — Wendy Doniger

Although proselytizing is not in itself necessarily intolerant, it does close the open-ended door of pluralism — Wendy Doniger

We are the hands and fingers of God. But we must use them! — Tom Herstad

Tis open before your eyes," returned the scout; "and he who knows it is not a niggard of its use. I have heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may deform his works in the settlement, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests. If any such there be, and he will follow me from sun to sun, through the windings of the forest, he shall see enough to teach him that he is a fool, and the greatest of his folly lies in striving to rise to the level of One he can never equal, be it in goodness, or be it in power. — James Fenimore Cooper

Stop being tomented by everyone else's reaction to you. — Joyce Meyer

I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars. — Wendy Doniger

Buffaloes are stronger than the lions, but they often fall prey to lions because they hesitate to be courageous and thus run away! Be determined or accept being destroyed! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

My dream was to be either a volleyball player or a veterinarian. — Gisele Bundchen

Wine is the liquid form of the Goddess Tara, who is the saviour of all living creatures, the mother of all enjoyment and Release, the destroyer of dangers and disease, who burns up all sins and purifies the worlds, O Beloved , who grants all success and increases knowledge, understanding and learning. — Wendy Doniger

Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people? — Wendy Doniger

(Sarah Palin's) greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman. — Wendy Doniger

Voltaire was deeply impressed by it and cited it often. — Wendy Doniger

The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think, — Wendy Doniger

Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it. [at least it will feel like it!] — Ralph Marston

Kautilya makes Machiavelli look like Mother Teresa — Wendy Doniger

intrareligious and interreligious. Hinduism interacted — Wendy Doniger

Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth. — Aristotle.

Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda, — Wendy Doniger

Its hatred is directed not only against Hindus of the more diverse traditions - the ones that the British, and Rammohan Roy, taught the Hindus to despise - but also, ironically, against the very monotheisms (Islam and Christianity) that nurtured the Hindu insistence that Hinduism is monotheistic. — Wendy Doniger

As long as it was just a matter of graft and the lust for power, the British treated the people they robbed as human beings. It was religion that made them treat them like devils — Wendy Doniger

Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about an old mystery: what has or hasn't happened in bed for centuries. Rich in insights about sex, lies, and personal identity, the result is entertaining, enthralling, and, yes, sexy. — Roberto Calasso

Before I read the script [The Following], I saw the schedule, and imagine how confusing that was. I thought it was intriguing. I'm an actress. Even if it's, by proxy, all about me, I'm all for it. It was all about me, but I didn't have to show up, so it was great. — Natalie Zea