I’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.
INDIRA GANDHIThe fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.
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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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The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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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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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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In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
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Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
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It’s not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn’t be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.
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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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I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
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Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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