I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
INDIRA GANDHIUntil the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women’s movements of the time; she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
-
-
I don’t mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
INDIRA GANDHI -
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.
INDIRA GANDHI -
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.
INDIRA GANDHI -
My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
INDIRA GANDHI -
I learned very soon to get along by myself.
INDIRA GANDHI -
We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
INDIRA GANDHI -
It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.
INDIRA GANDHI -
Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
INDIRA GANDHI -
One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
INDIRA GANDHI -
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 GANDHI -
How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
INDIRA GANDHI -
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.
INDIRA GANDHI -
I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
INDIRA GANDHI -
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
INDIRA GANDHI -
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.
INDIRA GANDHI






