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Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.

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Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.

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In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.

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Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

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I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.

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I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.

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I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.

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I have a plot, but not much happens.

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I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

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I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

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History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

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I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

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The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

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A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

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It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

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Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.

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The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.

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Language cares.

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I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

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Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

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