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 GANDHINow I don’t get upset by unpleasant things, I don’t play the victim, and I’m always ready to come to terms with life.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
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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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The 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.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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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 a virtue of the brave.
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Ability is not always gauged by examination.
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As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it – otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.
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Now I don’t get upset by unpleasant things, I don’t play the victim, and I’m always ready to come to terms with life.
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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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I learned very soon to get along by myself.
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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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