मैंने हमेशा यही उम्मीद की थी कि मेरे काम को नोटिस किया जाएगा, सराहा जाएगा या वही आखिरकार सफल होगा, न कि मेरी कामुकता को।

I always expected my work to be what was noticed, appreciated or what would eventually succeed, not my sexuality.

I always expected my work to be what was noticed, appreciated or what would eventually succeed, not my sexuality.

Topic Achievement & Work Success
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Mixed Type: Reflection 92%

यदि आप यौन आकर्षण हासिल करके तब (या इसलिए) एक लेखक के रूप में सफल हो जाते हैं—या [करियर का कोई अन्य विकल्प भरें]—तो क्या इसका मतलब यह है कि आप साहित्यिक सम्मान के हकदार लेखक हैं?

If you can get sexual attention and then (or therefore) succeed as a writer - or [fill in career blank] - that means you're a writer worthy of literary respect?

If you can get sexual attention and then (or therefore) succeed as a writer - or [fill in career blank] - that means you're a writer worthy of literary respect?

Topic Creativity & Expression Writing
Tone: Cynical Sentiment: Negative Type: Question 92%

संस्कृति और समाज ने इतने लंबे समय से यह तय कर रखा है कि हमारा यौन आकर्षण ही हमें महत्वपूर्ण बनाता है कि यह बात जन्म से ही हमारी संवेदनाओं का हिस्सा बन जाती है। छोटी लड़कियां यह बात जानती हैं। महज़ 2 या 3 साल की उम्र से ही, सुंदर बच्चियां यह जानने लगती हैं कि उन्हें ध्यान कैसे और क्यों मिलता है। और वे कितनी जल्दी इसका फायदा उठाना सीख जाती हैं। इसका इस्तेमाल करना सीख जाती हैं। और हममें से बाकी लोग कितनी जल्दी यह समझ जाते हैं कि हमारे पास वह खूबी नहीं है।

Culture and society determined sexual desirability as what makes us important so long that it's part of our sensibility from birth.Little girls know. From around 2 or 3, the pretty ones already know how and why they get attention. And how quickly they learn to play it. Use it. And how quickly the rest of us figure out we don't have it.

Culture and society determined sexual desirability as what makes us important so long that it's part of our sensibility from birth.Little girls know. From around 2 or 3, the pretty ones already know how and why they get attention. And how quickly they learn to play it. Use it. And how quickly the rest of us figure out we don't have it.

Topic Relationships & Love Attraction
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Mixed Type: Observation 92%

जब मैं कभी-कلام अपने प्रति उस रवैये (यौन आकर्षण की भावना) को महसूस करती हूँ, तो मुझे उस पर कभी-कभार घृणा महसूस होती है, लेकिन शायद यह सही नहीं है। हमारी संस्कृति ने ही हमें यह सिखाया है कि किसे सबसे ज़्यादा महत्व दिया जाना चाहिए और किसे नहीं।

I occasionally feel contempt for that attitude [degree of sexual desire towards me] when I perceive it, but maybe that's not fair. By our culture we've been taught who is most valued and who is not.

I occasionally feel contempt for that attitude [degree of sexual desire towards me] when I perceive it, but maybe that's not fair. By our culture we've been taught who is most valued and who is not.

Topic Relationships & Love Attraction
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Mixed Type: Reflection 92%

दुख की बात है कि पब्लिशिंग की दुनिया में बहुत कुछ बदल चुका है... एजेंटों और संपादकों के लिए न सिर्फ आपका आकर्षक दिखना मायने रखता है, बल्कि अब एक अंतर्मुखी या अकेले रहने वाले लेखक के लिए वहां कोई जगह नहीं बची है।

Sadly, too much has changed about publishing ... not only does attractiveness matter to agents and editors, but there's no room anymore for a reclusive writer.

Sadly, too much has changed about publishing ... not only does attractiveness matter to agents and editors, but there's no room anymore for a reclusive writer.

Topic Creativity & Expression Writing
Tone: Cynical Sentiment: Negative Type: Observation 94%

यही फर्क होता है एक असली डायरी और उपन्यास के लिए गढ़ी गई डायरी में। उपन्यास वाली डायरी में फेरबदल करना पड़ता है ताकि उसे पढ़ने वाले की समझ में सब कुछ आ जाए, जिसका मतलब यह हुआ कि उसे लिखने वाले को भविष्य के किसी पाठक का ध्यान रखना ही पड़ा होगा।

That's the difference between a real journal and one that's invented for a novel. A novel journal has to be manipulated so someone reading it can have enough comprehension, which means the person writing it would've had to have a sense of a someday-audience.

That's the difference between a real journal and one that's invented for a novel. A novel journal has to be manipulated so someone reading it can have enough comprehension, which means the person writing it would've had to have a sense of a someday-audience.

Topic Creativity & Expression Writing
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Neutral Type: Observation 95%

लड़कियाँ इस धरती पर सिर्फ पुरुषों का मनोरंजन करने के लिए नहीं आई हैं, जबकि पुरुष ज़रूरी काम करते हैं।

Girls are not just put on earth for men's amusement while they do the important things.

Girls are not just put on earth for men's amusement while they do the important things.

Topic Society & World Justice
Tone: Defiant Sentiment: Positive Type: Observation 95%

मुझे लगता है कि कुछ तरह का सेक्सिज़्म (लैंगिक भेदभाव) इतना सामान्य हो चुका है और इतने लंबे समय से चला आ रहा है कि युवा महिलाओं को कमतर या दोयम दर्जे का महसूस होने लगता है, अगर कार्यस्थल पर उनके लिंग और उनकी खूबसूरती या कामुकता पर टिप्पणियां न की जाएं।

I think a certain kind of sexism is so matter-of-fact, and has been for so long, that young women feel less valuable or second-tier if their gender and attractiveness or sexual desirability are not being commented on in the workplace.

I think a certain kind of sexism is so matter-of-fact, and has been for so long, that young women feel less valuable or second-tier if their gender and attractiveness or sexual desirability are not being commented on in the workplace.

Topic Society & World Justice
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Negative Type: Observation 95%

ध्यान मिलने का मतलब है महत्व मिलना, जिसका मतलब है खुद को मूल्यवान समझना, और इसका सीधा ताल्लुक आपके अहंकार से है। या फिर, ज़्यादा व्यावहारिक रूप से कहें तो, ध्यान मिलने का मतलब है सफलता पाना।

Attention equals importance equals value equals ego. Or, more realistically, Attention equals success.

Attention equals importance equals value equals ego. Or, more realistically, Attention equals success.

Topic Achievement & Work Focus
Tone: Wise Sentiment: Neutral Type: Aphorism 94%

कॉलेज के दिनों में, एक लड़की के रूप में जब मैं खुद को "खास" या आकर्षक नहीं साबित कर पाई, तो मैंने अपनी छोटी सी दुनिया में खुद को काम का, बल्कि बेहद ज़रूरी बना लिया—एक बैंड के लिए लेखक और फोटोग्राफर के तौर पर, ख़ासकर बैंड डायरेक्टर के लिए। मेरा "खास" होना किसी चीज़ की तरह दिखना नहीं (जो सुंदरता का एक अलग ही पैमाना है), बल्कि कुछ मूल्यवान पैदा करना था; इसलिए मैं मूल रूप से भले ही अदृश्य ही रही, लेकिन मेरा एक बहुत बड़ा मक़सद था।

In college, unable to be "special" - or in demand - as a girl, I made myself useful, even essential, in my microcosm - as a writer and photographer for the band, particularly for the band director. My "specialness" was to produce something of value, not to look like something (with that different kind of "value"), so I was still fundamentally invisible, but had a significant purpose.

In college, unable to be "special" - or in demand - as a girl, I made myself useful, even essential, in my microcosm - as a writer and photographer for the band, particularly for the band director. My "specialness" was to produce something of value, not to look like something (with that different kind of "value"), so I was still fundamentally invisible, but had a significant purpose.

Topic Self & Identity Identity
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Mixed Type: Reflection 92%

महत्वाकांक्षा वह चीज़ है जिसे आप ऑनलाइन अपनी एक पहचान, एक ब्रांड और एक नेटवर्क बनाने की योजना में बदल देते हैं।

Ambition is something you turn into a plan to create an online personality, a brand, a network.

Ambition is something you turn into a plan to create an online personality, a brand, a network.

Topic Goals Ambition Achievement & Work
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Neutral Type: Observation 95%

कोई भी इंसान अकेले बैठकर सिर्फ ऐसी सुलगती हुई महत्वाकांक्षा के सहारे नहीं बैठ सकता जिसका फल मिलने में अभी कई साल बाकी हों। महत्वाकांक्षा तो वह चीज़ है जिसे आप किसी चीज़ का प्रचार करने से पहले ही पब्लिसिटी में बदल देते हैं।

Nobody sits alone accompanied only by a stewing ambition that won't see fruit for years. Ambition is something you turn into publicity before there's anything to publicize.

Nobody sits alone accompanied only by a stewing ambition that won't see fruit for years. Ambition is something you turn into publicity before there's anything to publicize.

Topic Achievement & Work Goals
Tone: Cynical Sentiment: Negative Type: Observation 95%

अगर रिश्तों की शुरुआत ही इस तरह के भेदभाव से हो—कि लड़कों को यौन सुख की उम्मीद हो और लड़कियों से बिना किसी बदले की उम्मीद के उसे सिर्फ देने की ही अपेक्षा की जाए—तो क्या यही वजह है कि युवा महिलाएं, अनजाने में ही सही, सेक्स के बदले में कुछ और पाने की कोशिश करने लगती हैं? चाहे वह लोकप्रियता हो, करियर में सफलता हो, या पेशेवर ध्यान हो।

If sexuality is beginning in such a skewed way: that boys expect to receive sexual pleasure and girls are expected to give it without reciprocation, is that why young women, even unintentionally, turn to getting something else in return for sex? Whether it be popularity, career success, professional attention.

If sexuality is beginning in such a skewed way: that boys expect to receive sexual pleasure and girls are expected to give it without reciprocation, is that why young women, even unintentionally, turn to getting something else in return for sex? Whether it be popularity, career success, professional attention.

Topic Relationships & Love Attraction
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Mixed Type: Question 92%

मैं जितने भी लोगों को जानती हूँ, चाहे वे पुरुष हों या महिलाएं, वे सभी यह देखना चाहेंगे कि दुनिया ऐसी हो जहां लड़कों और लड़कियों, पुरुषों और महिलाओं—सभी को उनके योगदान के लिए एक समान महत्व मिले, भले ही हमारे दिमाग और शरीर के काम करने के तरीके में अंतर क्यों न हो।

Everyone I know, men and women alike, would love to see the world changed so that boys and girls, men and women are valued equally for what we contribute, despite the differences in how our brains and bodies work.

Everyone I know, men and women alike, would love to see the world changed so that boys and girls, men and women are valued equally for what we contribute, despite the differences in how our brains and bodies work.

Topic Society & World Society
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Positive Type: Thought-provoking 95%

अपने 20 के दशक में, पुरुषों के अहंकार से भरे उस तंग कार्यस्थल पर मुझे यह सिखाया जा रहा था कि मेरे प्रति दिखाए जाने वाले यौन आकर्षण पर मुझे अपनी भावनाओं से प्रतिक्रिया देना बंद करना होगा। दूसरे शब्दों में कहें तो, बदलाव मुझमें ही लाया जाना था।

What I was being told in my 20s in the close-quartered, male-ego-infused work space, was that I had to stop reacting with my emotions to sexual desire towards me. The change, in other words, had to be made in me.

What I was being told in my 20s in the close-quartered, male-ego-infused work space, was that I had to stop reacting with my emotions to sexual desire towards me. The change, in other words, had to be made in me.

Topic Society & World Society
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Negative Type: Reflection 92%

इस विश्वास के बावजूद कि किसी न किसी तरह मेरा काम मुझे मेरी मंज़िल तक पहुँचा ही देगा, मेरे भीतर फिर भी एक अगाध तड़प बची हुई थी। हाँ, मेरे करियर की महत्वाकांक्षाएं हमेशा मुझे आगे बढ़ने के लिए उकसाती रहती थीं। लेकिन आंशिक रूप से, मुझे लगता है कि मैंने उन सपनों को उस दूसरी तड़प की जगह लेने या उस रूप में ढालने की कोशिश की, ताकि मुझे उस तरह का महत्व या मूल्य मिल सके।

Despite my belief that somehow my work would get me where I wanted to be, there was still some kind of fathomless yearning. Yes, my career aspirations were always goading me. But partially, I think I tried to let those dreams replace or become the other yearning, to have that other form of value.

Despite my belief that somehow my work would get me where I wanted to be, there was still some kind of fathomless yearning. Yes, my career aspirations were always goading me. But partially, I think I tried to let those dreams replace or become the other yearning, to have that other form of value.

Topic Achievement & Work Career
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Mixed Type: Reflection 92%