To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
INDIRA GANDHIThe 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.
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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I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
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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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I learned very soon to get along by myself.
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I don’t mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
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I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
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It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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Women sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.
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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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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.
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You soon realize that the peak you’ve climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb And the more you climb, the more you want to climb – even though you’re dead tired.
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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
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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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