"The world isn’t just what you see outside your window. It’s so much larger, so much grander. We are just microscopic …"

"This is my life. No one has the right to tell me how to live it or to question what I do. When you grow up, you will …"

"Everybody wants to know about it. Even now. But look at what else I have accomplished since then which must have take…"

"Every woman I knew secretly longed to have many lovers but she stopped herself for so many reasons. I had the capacit…"

"Human nature being what it is, or at least conditioning being what it is I was so insecure. I always had to watch out…"

"When I saw Odissi it could have been Kuchipudi or Thai for all I cared. No one knew Odissi then. I S Johar once intro…"

"My guru said you are too old. I thought I was young -- I was 26. And he said you can't and I said I can. I'll show yo…"

"Firstly I had never touched anyone's feet. So I refused to do that for months. I had never been inside a temple. I re…"

"This great man, Guru Kelucharan Mahapatra, a Padmashri and Padma Bhushan, would clean the gutter outside his house. H…"

"'Indian', [mom said], you will write Indian. And if they have a problem with that let them come and talk to me. They …"