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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.

Indira Gandhi

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

Difficult Future Scare
Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
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Care Danger Friendship Generosity Help
You don’t help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
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Country Defeat Democracy Military
Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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Country Freedom
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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People Politics Remember Right Rights
Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
INDIRA GANDHI

Art Politics Power
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.
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Blessing Children Investment Religious
We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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Ourselves Patriot Starve
Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
INDIRA GANDHI

Appreciate Diversity Endurance Justice Logic
Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
INDIRA GANDHI

Democracy River Women
The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
INDIRA GANDHI

Believe Hope Life Purpose
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
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
INDIRA GANDHI

Faith Inspirational Summer
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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Birth Control Mean Men
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
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

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