... where does strength come from? It is not muscle strength any more. It is not also mere intellectual strength. What is strength? Strength is the s….

It's not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn't be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my fathe….

It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves..

Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave..

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….

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….

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

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….

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 ….

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

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

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

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something..

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..