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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

Difficulties can’t be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them. The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It’s all right to fight, yes, but only when it’s possible.
INDIRA GANDHI

Acceptance Country Difficult Fight Life Right
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
INDIRA GANDHI

People Politics Remember Right Rights
The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
INDIRA GANDHI

Company Life Need Young
We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
INDIRA GANDHI

Ourselves Patriot Starve
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Death Fight Mother Time
I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
INDIRA GANDHI

Patriot Proud Understand
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
INDIRA GANDHI

Beginning Deep End Reality
The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
INDIRA GANDHI

Enemy Ultimate
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
To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
INDIRA GANDHI

Capability Faith Oneself
There is not love where there is no will.
INDIRA GANDHI

Love Willing
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Eyes Mother Oppression Rage Woman
Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
INDIRA GANDHI

Defeat Pain Victory
My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
INDIRA GANDHI

Liberty Men Theory Woman
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 meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
INDIRA GANDHI

Earth Peace

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.

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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.

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