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Indira Gandhi

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Indira Gandhi
Age: 66 †
Born: 1917
Born: November 19
Died: 1984
Died: October 31
Former Prime Minister Of India
Politician
Writer
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Indira Nehru
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
Indira Ghandi
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Do you know why I won the last elections? It was because the people liked me, yes, because I had worked, yes, but also because the opposition had behaved badly toward me. And do you know why I won this war? Because my army was able to do it, yes, but also because the Americans were on the side of Pakistan.
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I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
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No one wanted that marriage, no one. Even Mahatma Gandhi wasn't happy about it. As for my father...it's not true that he opposed it, as people say, but he wasn't eager for it. I suppose because the fathers of only daughters would prefer to see them get married as late as possible.
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know.
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We couldn't be everywhere, we couldn't see everything, and it was inevitable that some things would escape us.
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Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
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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.
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The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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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 courageous.' He just smiled with pride every time I did something difficult or won a race with the boys.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied.
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I began to associate with Mahatma Gandhi when he came and went in our house - together with my father and mother he was on the executive committee. After independence I worked with him a lot - in the period when there were the troubles between Hindus and Muslims, he assigned me to take care of the Muslims. To protect them.
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Just when you think you've achieved something, you realize you've achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same - toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.
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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.
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Until today the rights of people have always been put forward by a few individuals acting in the name of the masses. Today instead of people no longer want to be represented each wants to speak for himself and participate directly - it's the same for the Negroes, for the Jews, for women.
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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.
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I always stayed married to my husband! Always, until the day he died! It's not true that we were separated!
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When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
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America always thought it was helping Pakistan. But if it hadn't helped Pakistan, Pakistan would have been a stronger country.
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