I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
INDIRA GANDHITo become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.
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As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.
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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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Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
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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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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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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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To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
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The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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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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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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