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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.

Indira Gandhi

The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
INDIRA GANDHI

Born Control
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Feeling Future Social Weakness Young
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
INDIRA GANDHI

Game Politics
in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
INDIRA GANDHI

Country Independent Philosophy World
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Capacity Enemy Liberty Men Personality
I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
INDIRA GANDHI

Job Myself Talk
Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
INDIRA GANDHI

Art Politics Power
There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
INDIRA GANDHI

Contentment Happiness Moments
When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
INDIRA GANDHI

Selfish Young
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
My father was a saint. I’m not.
INDIRA GANDHI

Father Saint
People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
INDIRA GANDHI

Hands Inspirational Life People Women
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 GANDHI

Blessing Children Investment Religious
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Blood Death Life Mind Myself Nation Service
I learned very soon to get along by myself.
INDIRA GANDHI

Learning Myself
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Age Beginning Myself Travel

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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