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Top 20 Meena Kandasamy Quotes (2025 Update)

Meena Kandasamy Quote: “Lady justice does not serve displaced women.”

1. “Lady justice does not serve displaced women.”

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Meena Kandasamy Quote: “Violence is not something that advertises itself. It is not written on my face- he is too careful of that, of course, aiming his fists at my body. As long as a woman cannot speak, as long as those to whom she speaks do not listen, the violence is unending.”

2. “Violence is not something that advertises itself. It is not written on my face- he is too careful of that, of course, aiming his fists at my body. As long as a woman cannot speak, as long as those to whom she speaks do not listen, the violence is unending.”

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Meena Kandasamy Quote: “I am the woman who is willing to display her scars and put them within exhibition frames. I am the madwoman of moon days. I am the breast-beating woman who howls. I am the woman who wills the skies to weep in my place.”

3. “I am the woman who is willing to display her scars and put them within exhibition frames. I am the madwoman of moon days. I am the breast-beating woman who howls. I am the woman who wills the skies to weep in my place.”

— Meena Kandasamy

Meena Kandasamy Quote: “Let me tell you something that goes against popular wisdom. Love is not blind; it just looks in the wrong places.”

4. “Let me tell you something that goes against popular wisdom. Love is not blind; it just looks in the wrong places.”

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Meena Kandasamy Quote: “They said even hawks could not carry away the sky, so scavenger crows like us should not have lofty dreams.”

5. “They said even hawks could not carry away the sky, so scavenger crows like us should not have lofty dreams.”

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Meena Kandasamy Quote: “You have a big man’s never she tells him. You need a old man’s patience.”

6. “You have a big man’s never she tells him. You need a old man’s patience.”

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Meena Kandasamy Quote: “There is a distasteful air of the outlaw that accompanies the idea of a writer in my husband’s mind. A self-centeredness about writing that doesn’t fit with his image of a revolutionary. It has the one-word job description : defiance. I’ve never felt such a dangerous attraction towards anything else in my life.”

7. “There is a distasteful air of the outlaw that accompanies the idea of a writer in my husband’s mind. A self-centeredness about writing that doesn’t fit with his image of a revolutionary. It has the one-word job description : defiance. I’ve never felt such a dangerous attraction towards anything else in my life.”

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Meena Kandasamy Quote: “The problem with thinking up a new and original idea within a novel is that you have to make sure that Kurt Vonnegut did not already think of it.”

8. “The problem with thinking up a new and original idea within a novel is that you have to make sure that Kurt Vonnegut did not already think of it.”

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Meena Kandasamy Quote: “No one treats us as writers, only as diarists who survived.”

9. “No one treats us as writers, only as diarists who survived.”

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Meena Kandasamy Quote: “I am the woman conjured up to take on the life of a woman afraid of facing her own reality.”

10. “I am the woman conjured up to take on the life of a woman afraid of facing her own reality.”

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Meena Kandasamy Quote: “I think what you know in a language shows who you are in relation to that language. Not an instance of language shaping your worldview, but its obtuse inverse, where your worldview shapes what parts of the language you pick up. Not just : your language makes you, your language holds you prisoner to a particular way of looking at the world. But also : who you are determines what language you inhabit, the prison-house of your existence permits you only to access and wield some parts of a language.”

11. “I think what you know in a language shows who you are in relation to that language. Not an instance of language shaping your worldview, but its obtuse inverse, where your worldview shapes what parts of the language you pick up. Not just : your language makes you, your language holds you prisoner to a particular way of looking at the world. But also : who you are determines what language you inhabit, the prison-house of your existence permits you only to access and wield some parts of a language.”

— Meena Kandasamy

Meena Kandasamy Quote: “Just because this is a novel set in rural India, do not expect a herd of buffalo to walk across every page for the sake of authenticity.”

12. “Just because this is a novel set in rural India, do not expect a herd of buffalo to walk across every page for the sake of authenticity.”

— Meena Kandasamy

Meena Kandasamy Quote: “Not just: your language makes you, your language holds you prisoner to a particular way of looking at the world. But also: who you are determines what language you inhabit, the prison-house of your existence permits you only to access and wield some parts of a language.”

13. “Not just: your language makes you, your language holds you prisoner to a particular way of looking at the world. But also: who you are determines what language you inhabit, the prison-house of your existence permits you only to access and wield some parts of a language.”

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Meena Kandasamy Quote: “And I am thinking about how I am someday going to be writing all this out and I am conscious that I am thinking about this and not about the moment, and I know that I have already escaped the present and that gives me hope, I just have to wait for this to end and I can write again, and I know that because I am going to be writing about this, I know this is going to end.”

14. “And I am thinking about how I am someday going to be writing all this out and I am conscious that I am thinking about this and not about the moment, and I know that I have already escaped the present and that gives me hope, I just have to wait for this to end and I can write again, and I know that because I am going to be writing about this, I know this is going to end.”

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Meena Kandasamy Quote: “I remind myself of the fundamental notion of what it means to be a writer. A writer is the one who controls the narrative.”

15. “I remind myself of the fundamental notion of what it means to be a writer. A writer is the one who controls the narrative.”

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Meena Kandasamy Quote: “The number one lesson I have learnt as a writer: Don’t let people remove you from your own story. Be ruthless, even if it is your own mother.”

16. “The number one lesson I have learnt as a writer: Don’t let people remove you from your own story. Be ruthless, even if it is your own mother.”

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Meena Kandasamy Quote: “Balakrishnan, who saw in me the earthiness of Ilayaraja’s music, and in me he claimed to uncover the wide-eyed, strong-willed, quick-to-retort, dancing-in-the-rain Mouna Raagam Revathi, the kind of woman the men of my father’s generation fantasized about, the woman whose touch was electric, whose speech was sharp as sickles, who coupled old-world shrewdness with rustic naivete, and the longer he kept projecting this image on me, the more distant I grew from myself, and from him.”

17. “Balakrishnan, who saw in me the earthiness of Ilayaraja’s music, and in me he claimed to uncover the wide-eyed, strong-willed, quick-to-retort, dancing-in-the-rain Mouna Raagam Revathi, the kind of woman the men of my father’s generation fantasized about, the woman whose touch was electric, whose speech was sharp as sickles, who coupled old-world shrewdness with rustic naivete, and the longer he kept projecting this image on me, the more distant I grew from myself, and from him.”

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Meena Kandasamy Quote: “If love is a place marked by the absence of questions, I’m no longer there. I have left with questions. I am left with questions.”

18. “If love is a place marked by the absence of questions, I’m no longer there. I have left with questions. I am left with questions.”

— Meena Kandasamy

Meena Kandasamy Quote: “He believes that after him, I will have nothing left in me to love, to make love, to give pleasure.”

19. “He believes that after him, I will have nothing left in me to love, to make love, to give pleasure.”

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Meena Kandasamy Quote: “I’m ashamed that language allows a man to insult a woman in an infinite number of ways.”

20. “I’m ashamed that language allows a man to insult a woman in an infinite number of ways.”

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