बच्चों के रहते घर साफ करना वैसा ही है जैसे बर्फीले तूफान के बीच बर्फ हटाना।
Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard
Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard
कल्पना कोई सपना नहीं है, न ही यह कोई तुक्का है। यह तथ्यों पर आधारित एक सोच है, और अगर तथ्य सटीक न हों, तो कल्पना की इमारत ढह जाएगी।
Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.
Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.
मैं इस बात को नहीं मानती कि गरीबी हमेशा हमारे साथ रहेगी। मुझे लगता है कि इस तरह की दकियानूसी सोच सिर्फ चीजों को वैसा ही बनाए रखने का एक बहाना है।
I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are.
I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are.
मुझे इस बात पर बहुत गुस्सा आता है कि लोग किसी के बाहरी दिखावे को कितनी आसानी से खारिज कर देते हैं। आखिर हमारे पास किसी को परखने का और जरिया ही क्या है? किसी के चाल-चलन या उसके संस्कारों का अंदाजा उसके बाहरी व्यवहार को देखे बिना और कैसे लगाया जा सकता है?
I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?
I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?
उस इंसान के लिए आसान नहीं होता जिसे कभी-कभी अपनी खुशी बनाए रखने के लिए अपने मजे का त्याग करना पड़ता है।
It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.
It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.
पछतावे उंगलियों के निशानों की तरह बेहद निजी होते हैं।
Regrets are as personal as fingerprints.
Regrets are as personal as fingerprints.
पछतावे उंगलियों के निशानों की तरह बेहद निजी होते हैं। जो व्यर्थ या झूठा है उसे छोड़ देना और उन सच्चाइयों का सामना करना जो वास्तव में आपकी अंतरात्मा को झकझोरती हैं, उस दर्द या समय के लायक है जो इसमें लगता है। यह अतीत के प्रति आपके कर्ज को भविष्य के लिए चुकाने जैसा है।
Regrets are as personal as fingerprints. Discarding what is vain or false, facing the facts that should truly disturb your conscience, is worth whatever time it takes or pain it may cause. It can pay to the future what you owe to the past.
Regrets are as personal as fingerprints. Discarding what is vain or false, facing the facts that should truly disturb your conscience, is worth whatever time it takes or pain it may cause. It can pay to the future what you owe to the past.
"सभी औरतें ऐसी होती हैं" से शुरू होने वाले वाक्य कभी भी, बिल्कुल भी सच नहीं होते।
Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true.
Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true.
वह अपने बच्चों को कभी पूरी तरह घर पर नहीं छोड़ पाती, भले ही वह उन्हें अपने साथ न ले जाए।
She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.
She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.
आखिर इंसान बचत किसलिए करता है? जीवन के अंत में उन कुछ थके हुए घंटों के लिए जब वह बैठकर बस पैसे गिनता है? या हम इसलिए बचत करते हैं ताकि हमारे आखिरी साल मानसिक रूप से खाली या नीरस न हों? मैं अपने मन को संवारने के लिए कुछ चीजें बचाकर रखने की कोशिश करती हूँ, इस सोच के साथ कि कोई नीलामी करने वाला वहाँ घुसकर मेरा सारा सामान नहीं बेच पाएगा।
What does one save for, anyhow? For a few tired hours at the end of life when one sits and counts dollars? Or do we save so that those last years will not be mentally barren or esthetically shabby? I try to save a few things to furnish my mind decently, on the theory that no auctioneer can get in there to sell off all the furniture.
What does one save for, anyhow? For a few tired hours at the end of life when one sits and counts dollars? Or do we save so that those last years will not be mentally barren or esthetically shabby? I try to save a few things to furnish my mind decently, on the theory that no auctioneer can get in there to sell off all the furniture.
आप सस्ते इत्र लगाकर बाहर नहीं निकलना चाहेंगी, है ना? तो फिर आप अपने व्यवहार में सस्तापन क्यों लाना चाहती हैं?
You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?
You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?