Katherine Boo Professions : JournalistBorn : August 12, 1964 Browse All Authors Top 32 quotes by Katherine Boo What you don't want is always going to be with you What you want is never going to be with you Where you don't want to go, you have to go And the moment you think you're going to live more, you're going to die Katherine Boo momentswantthinking .. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens. Katherine Boo powerfulopportunitycountry People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't get them closer to the comforts that they see others enjoying, the temptation to take shortcuts can be fierce. Katherine Boo temptationlongpeople I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were prospering like crazy, I couldn't quite make out how the new wealth had changed the prospects of the majority of city residents who lived in slums. So after a few years I stopped wondering and started reporting. Katherine Boo crazyhusbandyears When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if you sit me down, I can get tied up in my own medical dramas. So I much prefer to work. Katherine Boo medicalstoriesdrama Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich'. It's vanity, nothing more. Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, 'what a navigator I am!' And then the wind blows you east. Katherine Boo vanityblowchildren We talk a lot about infrastructure in cities, and it's talking about highways and it's talking about trains, but I think more important to people who are low income is, how do I get from here to there? How do I become part of the affluence that's surrounding me? Katherine Boo thinkmeimportantpeople People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to do with each other. Katherine Boo mumbairichpoorpeople For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying? Katherine Boo goodmyselfmepeople I'm not squeamish. Katherine Boo I have been dealing with illness and its manifestations since I was a teenager, and I think that gives me a very healthy respect for the things in life we can't control. Katherine Boo thinkmerespectlife When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure. Katherine Boo yourlikepleasurework Similar Authors Irving Bacheller journalist Bill Keller journalist Bob Woodward journalist Bolesław Prus journalist Buzz Bissinger journalist Burton Rascoe journalistAll Authors
