I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
INDIRA GANDHIMy grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
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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 must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
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The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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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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I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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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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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
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I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
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