My father cared very much about courage, physical courage as well. He despised those who didn't have it. But he never said to me, 'I want you to be c….

In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved..

I don't see why we and the Chinese should have to be enemies..

I always wanted to have children - if it had been up to me, I would have had eleven. It was my husband who wanted only two..

People who say it was her father who prepared her for the post of prime minister, it was her father who launched her, are wrong..

Women sometimes go too far, it's true. But it's only when you go too far that others listen..

The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties..

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..

what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise..

Dacca is now the free capital of a free country..

With boys I climbed trees, ran races, and wrestled. I had no complexes of envy or inferiority toward boys. At the same time, however, I liked dolls..

Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it..

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten..

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources..

Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve..

It depends on what you mean by the word religion. Certainly I don't go to temples and pray to the gods or anything like that..

If you only knew, for instance, how much I enjoy being a grandmother! Do you know I'm twice a grandmother? Rajiv and Sonia have had a boy and a girl..

America always thought it was helping Pakistan. But if it hadn't helped Pakistan, Pakistan would have been a stronger country..

What good does it do to remain tied to an ideology if you don't achieve anything by it? I have an ideology myself - you can't work in a vacuum; you h….

When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything..

To become capable, one must have faith in oneself..