I am finally glad to see that the jury is looking at me.

I, being the ham that I am, always want people looking at me.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I am 74 now. Looking back, I have a sense of not really being in control of my career. I just went where it took me.

Sometimes I do feel like I write the same story again and again. And for me, I am always looking for a place with a kind of redemption.

For me, I am not a fan of any of my own matches, and it's both a blessing and a curse. Because I'm never satisfied, I'm always looking to improve in every area.

I want to make sure that any young person or anyone, really, who is looking up to me - who sees a glimpse of who I am as a person - that they see no shame, that they see pride, and that I'm truly unabashed about the person that I am.

It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me.

I seem to be known as much by the moniker 'Mrs Funnybones' as my own name these days. The book was about how a modern woman looks at India and how India looks right back at her. I am glad that India seems to be looking back at me with a grin.

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.

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