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 GANDHIFor me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
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To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
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The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
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Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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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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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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in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
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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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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
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It’s the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I’m not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I’m for nationalization in cases where it’s necessary.
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