Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Cites

• NULL (1)
  • IN: Before we Visit the Goddess (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Yatra naaryasto poojyantay, ramantay tatra devata. (Where women are honored, there the gods are pleased.)
    FROM: Manusmriti 3/56, 100 CE, (100), NULL, India
• Jean Thompson (1)
  • IN: Before we Visit the Goddess (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Everybody lives two ways. The first is simple, the second less so.
    FROM: Fire Dreams, (1988), Short story, US
• W. B. Yeats (1)
  • IN: Oleander Girl (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Oh love is the crooked thing There is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away, And the shadows eaten the moon; Ah penny, brown penny, brown penny, One cannot begin it too soon
    FROM: The Young Man's Song, (1916), Poem, Ireland
• Chinua Achebe (2)
  • IN: One Amazing Thing (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We create stories and stories create us. It is a rondo.
    FROM: What Has Literature Got to Do with It, (1988), Essay, South Africa
  • IN: Sister of My Heart (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is only the story... that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.
    FROM: Anthills of the Savannah, (1987), Novel, Nigeria
• Dan Chaon (1)
  • IN: One Amazing Thing (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If no one knows you, then you are no one.
    FROM: Big Me, (2001), Novel, US