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I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.

Indira Gandhi

I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger well, one must risk the danger.
INDIRA GANDHI

Danger Risk Thinking
Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
INDIRA GANDHI

Defeat Pain Victory
The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
INDIRA GANDHI

Believe Hope Life Purpose
I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
INDIRA GANDHI

Unity World
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
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
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Change Defeat Mindset Victory World
How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
INDIRA GANDHI

Afford Nation
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Birth Control Mean Men
The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
INDIRA GANDHI

Difficult Future Scare
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 fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
INDIRA GANDHI

Ideas Myself
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
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Funny Himself Kind Leadership Success
To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
INDIRA GANDHI

Enjoyment Mother Sacrifice
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
INDIRA GANDHI

Bravery Forgiveness History Virtue

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