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

Until I was about eighteen, yes [I didn't want to get married]. But not because I felt like a suffragette, but because I wanted to devote all my ener….

Ability is not always gauged by examination..

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 Indi….

My theory is that men are no more liberated than women..

When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more..

Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave..

[Mahatma Gandhi] said that the first president of India ought to be a harijan girl, an untouchable. He was so against the class system and the oppres….

I grew up like a boy, also because most of the children who came to our house were boys..

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution..

Let's not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti..

[ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is not a very balanced man. When he talks, you never understand what he means. What does he mean this time? That he wants to b….

Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change..

I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies t….

Unfortunately even in India there are people who talk like that. And they're the same ones who say, 'We should never have accepted the existence of P….

[My mother] was the oldest of two sisters and two brothers, and she grew up with her brothers, who were about her age. She grew up, to the age of ten….

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….

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged..

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance..

Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two..

I discovered [Joan of Arc] toward the age of ten or twelve, when I went to France. I don't remember where I read about her, but I recall that she imm….