To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
INDIRA GANDHIThe fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
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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.
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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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Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage – courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow.
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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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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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Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
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Ability is not always gauged by examination.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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I have certain objectives. They’re the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.
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In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
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I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger well, one must risk the danger.
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How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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