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My father was a saint. I'm not.

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
Prayag
Indira Nehru
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
Indira Ghandi
Saint
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
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I've never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don't allow themselves any other activities.
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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.
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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 the Western world, on the other hand, nothing of the kind has ever happened - women have participated, yes, but revolutions have always been made by men alone.
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You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded.
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I don't see the world as something divided between right and left.
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If by happiness you mean ecstasy ... Yes, I've known ecstasy, and it's a blessing to be able to say it because those who can say it are very few. But ecstasy doesn't last long and is seldom if ever repeated.
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Whether when I was a child and fought the British in the Monkey brigade, or when I was a girl and wanted to have children, or when I was a woman and devoted myself to my father, making my husband angry. Each time I stayed involved all the way in my decision, and took the consequences. Even if I was fighting for things that didn't concern India.
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What we do now, on the other hand...Don't think that I'm crazy about this kind of politics. It's no accident that I've done everything to keep my sons out of it, and so far I've succeeded. After independence I retired immediately from politics.
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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
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There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy.
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The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated.
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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because its goal was the conquest of freedom.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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I've always discovered things for myself, in marvelous freedom.
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No one ever indoctrinated me.
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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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