Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
INDIRA GANDHIDefeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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There is not love where there is no will.
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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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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.
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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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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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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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My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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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 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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