Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

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  Parent, Being Different, Different

• I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

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  Parents Marriage, Interesting, Married

• It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Names, Clothes, Parent

• My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.

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  Mother, Growing Up, Father

• Ive inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Growing Up, Moving, Loss

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from May 29, 2011

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