To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.
INDIRA GANDHIMuslim women had to go out in purdah, that heavy sheet that covers even the eyes. Hindu women had to go out in the doli, a kind of closed sedan chair like a catafalque. My mother always told me about these things with bitterness and rage.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it’s by no means dreadful.
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The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger well, one must risk the danger.
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I learned very soon to get along by myself.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
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The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.
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You soon realize that the peak you’ve climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb And the more you climb, the more you want to climb – even though you’re dead tired.
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The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
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It’s the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I’m not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I’m for nationalization in cases where it’s necessary.
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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