I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
INDIRA GANDHIPeople with clenched fists can not shake hands.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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I learned very soon to get along by myself.
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A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.
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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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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.
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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 refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
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Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
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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 peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.
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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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