in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence..

I certainly won't have an empty life!.

I always stayed married to my husband! Always, until the day he died! It's not true that we were separated!.

I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well..

Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us..

My sons...I was crazy about my sons and I think I've done a super job in bringing them up..

I've always discovered things for myself, in marvelous freedom..

The Indians and Pakistanis are literally brothers..

The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence..

Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the poor among the tribes, the poor w….

I said, I'll put on weight. And I started having massages, taking cod-liver oil, and eating twice as much. But I didn't even gain an ounce. I'd made ….

Maybe I would have considered the problem if I'd met someone with whom I'd have liked to live. But I never met this someone and... No, even if I had ….

The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated..

I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring..

You found an uncle on one side and a nephew on the other, a cousin here and a cousin there. Besides it's still true today. I'll tell you something el….

You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work..

My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not..

India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist..

In India people can't stomach this attitude of mine, and when I say, 'Hurry up, let's get to the point,' they feel hurt..

Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it..

The struggle for independence here has been conducted in equal measure by men and by women. And when we got our independence, no one forgot that. In ….