Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
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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in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
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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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How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
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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 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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Just when you think you’ve achieved something, you realize you’ve achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same – toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.
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In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.
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Until 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.
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it – otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.
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Ability is not always gauged by examination.
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