If you wish to spend lavishly on your son’s wedding, spend it from your own means.
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
What kind of thing is it to cut the throat of the bride’s father? It is vile—utterly vile.
A daughter has a share in her parents’ earnings.
The house in which a daughter is married off is not the end of her claim as a daughter.
The daughter of a respectable family could not even open her mouth; resistance was beyond her imagination.
Until now women pressed their husbands’ feet. That custom has not completely disappeared, but I would feel ashamed if my wife pressed mine.
I do not want to accept any service from her that I could not perform for her as well.
This custom is a relic of the age when a woman was considered her husband’s servant. Now husband and wife are equal.