I learned very soon to get along by myself..

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave..

Life is a continuous process of adjustment..

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..

I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people ... I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say….

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision..

Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage..

How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?.

My husband lived in Lucknow. My father lived in Delhi, of course. So I shuttled between Delhi and Lucknow and...naturally, if my husband needed me on….

No one ever indoctrinated me..

I went back into politics only when it was clear that things weren't going as they should have in my party. I was always arguing, I argued with every….

In India's distant past, when the population was low, the blessing given a woman was, 'May you have many children.' Most of our epics and literature ….

Happiness is such a fleeting point of view - there's no such thing as continual happiness..

You say this victory is dangerous. I say that today no one can yet tell if it's dangerous, that today I don't see the risks you mention. If, however,….

Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading id….

My children needed me, and I like my job as a social worker..

We announced that there'd be no more starvation in India. And you responded, 'Impossible. You'll never succeed!' Instead we succeeded; today in India….

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..

One day in 1965 Rajiv wrote me from London, where he was studying, and informed me, 'You're always asking me about girls, whether I have a special gi….

This is also something I've learned from experience. Didn't they perhaps give us the vote because we went too far?.

We couldn't be everywhere, we couldn't see everything, and it was inevitable that some things would escape us..