"Second place is meaningless. You can't always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been - that you were never beaten - that time just ran out on you."

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I am a woman who is a granddaughter of a lady who used to be beaten on the head by her husband, of a mother who went through hell because she was divorced and had to bring up these kids. And I can take 10 men out to lunch and pay the bill, and nobody even thinks twice about it. So don’t mess with me.

— Arundhati Roy