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" Now that I look back, all the things that I was teased about, became game changers and my strengths. That's what we have to learn as mothers. We push our children so much to be perfect, but it's their imperfections that make them unique. "

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Drive

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" Sometimes I am glad I am not a philosopher - how would I ever complete a single chain of thought when someone is constantly asking me to do something? I don't think Plato would have been able to write his dialogues if he had a wife who kept bugging him to pass the pita bread. "

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" The editor of a newspaper, who is an old friend, asked me to write a column. According to her, I cracked lame jokes all the time and read voraciously. "

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" I have never had a facial in my life. I use a facewash, a sunblock, and then I am set, with some kohl pencil around my eyes. "

" My granny was always mourning about the fact I wear dull, stained jeans or don't brush my hair. "

" Sometimes I do give in to a scoop of sitaphal ice cream from Naturals or a chocolate chip cookie. "

" There was never a game plan to be on social media. Like most things in life, if you work consistently and at your pace, then things fall into place. "

" Read everything you can get your hands on: Programme your mind to read all the time and everywhere - even in the bathroom; skim through the lines printed on the back of shampoo bottles and sanitary napkin packets. "

" You won't believe it, but my grandfather named me. And the choices were between Sparkle, Sprinkle and Twinkle. So, thank God, they chose Twinkle. "

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Thank God

Choices

" To me, it felt that if I give up my name, I am also sending a message to my children, saying my name was not important enough as your father's; I am not as important as your father. That is a message we are passing down generation after generation without realising. "

Twinkle Khanna

Saying

Father

" There are 146 countries above us where the men have longer lifespans, and the biggest blow is that even with four wives who don't fast for them, the Arab men outlive our good old Indian dudes. "

" After sitting for two to three hours at a stretch, my feet just swell up. So I try to walk as much as I can. "

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" Ultimately, there is no definition for smartness. It's just the ability to do what you want to do really well. "

" The gratifying part of my journey is no one calls me a star child or a superstar's wife anymore. I think I have grown beyond that and have my own identity. "

" I'm a different person who's not my father or my mother. I want to be treated differently from them. I am myself, Twinkle Khanna. I am proud of being the daughter of such illustrious parents, but I would not like to be compared with them time and again. "

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" I never said I'm not a feminist! I wrote one column where I was being sarcastic, and I called myself a 'wombist'. Now which sane person would say that 'wombist' is a better term than feminist? I was being sarcastic, and perhaps it was my fault in not getting the point across as clearly as I would have liked to. I don't think there's any doubt. "

" I'm constantly working. I am constantly going to the next thing. "

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Going

I Am

" I actually believe we are the superior gender. Why are we superior? Statistically, we outlive men by a good 10 years. No one should underestimate the power of nagging - it's on par with nuclear weapons. "

" I think you have to be pragmatic to the approach of life and brutally honest with yourself. We all are here to do something, and it is important to understand our potential first. "