Premchand Quotes on Women

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Verified quotations from Premchand concerning women, marriage, dowry, women's dignity, domestic equality, motherhood, widowhood, and women's agency

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If you wish to spend lavishly on your son’s wedding, spend it from your own means.

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What kind of thing is it to cut the throat of the bride’s father? It is vile—utterly vile.

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A daughter has a share in her parents’ earnings.

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The house in which a daughter is married off is not the end of her claim as a daughter.

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The daughter of a respectable family could not even open her mouth; resistance was beyond her imagination.

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Until now women pressed their husbands’ feet. That custom has not completely disappeared, but I would feel ashamed if my wife pressed mine.

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I do not want to accept any service from her that I could not perform for her as well.

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This custom is a relic of the age when a woman was considered her husband’s servant. Now husband and wife are equal.