Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
INDIRA GANDHIPeople tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
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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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Ability is not always gauged by examination.
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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 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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Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
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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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It’s the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I’m not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I’m for nationalization in cases where it’s necessary.
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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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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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It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.
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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
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