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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.

Indira Gandhi

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
INDIRA GANDHI

Human Inspirational Leadership Life Progress
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Developing Helping Nations
I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
INDIRA GANDHI

Job Myself Talk
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Life Play Upset Victim
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Achievement Beginning Dream End Thinking Yourself
Ability is not always gauged by examination.
INDIRA GANDHI

Ability Examination
The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
INDIRA GANDHI

Earth Peace
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Father Ideas Mindset
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Age Beginning Myself Travel
The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
INDIRA GANDHI

Believe Hope Life Purpose
To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.
INDIRA GANDHI

Blessing Children Investment Religious
I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
INDIRA GANDHI

Job Mom Perfection
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Father Mother Personality
To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
INDIRA GANDHI

Capability Faith Oneself
One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
INDIRA GANDHI

Money Motivational Oneself
How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
INDIRA GANDHI

Afford Nation

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