I’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.
INDIRA GANDHIRebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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I learned very soon to get along by myself.
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Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
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Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
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You don’t help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
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Difficulties can’t be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them. The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It’s all right to fight, yes, but only when it’s possible.
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Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.
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in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
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Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage – courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow.
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Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
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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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Muslim 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.
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For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.
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I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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