This article is a thoughtful observation on a married woman, her compulsions and predic aments in a social -taboo ridden world and her constant struggle for empowerment with reference to Manju Kapur ’s A Married Woman (2002). There has been much critical interrogation on the relationship of autobiography with empowerment of women. In the proces s of rethinking empowerment, scholars have drawn attention to the nuanced practices of narrating the self and invading into the public as a mode of empowerment for women. Though I will explore these issues in Manju Kapur ’s A Married Woman , my primary focus of this article is to form a fresh perspective on the following questions: What are the strategies that women employ to gain a voice? How do women ’s writings problematize the dichotomy of private and public? Are autobiographies or narrations the self always empowering for women? Central to my approach is an exploration and examination of how autobiographical practices can reflect, perpetuate, and also shatter cultural myths about gender and mark intervention in history to rewrite the grand narrative