Quirky but true

If a man tells you that women are the source of all life, nurturers, home-makers, believe me, he is putting you down and making sure you stay in your place, which has been decided by him, of course.

If you hear the word “Thai Passum” – Tamil – meaning the self-abnegating and all-consuming love of a mother, run for your life. (You usually encounter this word in Tamil movies, where it is used by a son for his mother, never by a daughter for hers.)

I’ll never be a receptacle for a man, you might rage.

Till you discover the joys of being one.

If you never have, isn’t it time you stopped being one?

Hold your lover’s hand

Firm and hard

Bur first find out if he is as steadfast

As you’d like him to be.

If you want to give,

Give carefully,

For the receiver must be worthy of the gift.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness…

... For the pillars of the temple stand apart,

And the oak and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.

(Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet)

Make sure you are the oak-tree and not the cypress.

The easiest way to a man’s heart is straight through his chest.

(Don’t remember who said this.)

If you have a hole in your body, how come your organs don’t fall out?

(6-year-old to his mother)

Ahana Let your soul sing