I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
INDIRA GANDHIDacca is now the free capital of a free country.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Now I don’t get upset by unpleasant things, I don’t play the victim, and I’m always ready to come to terms with life.
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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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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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When it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
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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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My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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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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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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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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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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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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The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
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To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
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I’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.
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