9 inspirational messages by Sharmila Tagore

You should lead your own life, do what you have to. If people recognize you, it gives you support. If they don't, how does it matter?

Some may want to be a homemaker and some want to follow other careers and they should be allowed. If we want to be different we should be different and we should be allowed to be different.

There is a mindset that has to be changed - the sense of entitlement of the man. That happens when you are bringing up someone. If you are going to differentiate between a boy and a girl from age zero, then he is bound to grow up with the sense of entitlement.

To be a real man, I think you have to be supportive of each other and to be a real woman you have to be supportive of your man, and the man has to do the same thing, only then he would be a real man.

Do what you want to do as long as you are not breaking any law."

"I was brought up in a Bengali family. We were three girls and never made to feel any lesser than men."

“I don’t feel any guilt, and I don’t think any woman should, for making her own choices." 

“It should be your decision to get married, work, or have children.”

"To be a real man, I think you have to be supportive of each other and to be a real woman you have to be supportive of your man, and the man has to do the same thing, only then he would be a real man."