I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
INDIRA GANDHIThe meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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I have certain objectives. They’re the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.
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Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
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That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
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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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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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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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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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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.
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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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I learned very soon to get along by myself.
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As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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