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I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.

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
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When [my father] asked me to help him, I really didn't suspect the consequences.
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I like to think I've provided this faith. I also think that by providing faith, I've focused their pride. I say focused because pride isn't something you give. It doesn't even break out suddenly it's a feeling that grows very slowly, very confusedly.
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Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it.
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Little by little I changed my mind, and when I was about eighteen, I began to consider the possibility of getting married. Not to have a husband, but to have children.
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For me it's absolutely the same - I treat one and the other in exactly the same way. As persons, that is, not as men and women. But, even here, you have to consider the fact that I've had a very special education, that I'm the daughter of a man like my father and a woman like my mother.
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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.
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When you look at the beginning of the actual war, it's not hard to recognize that the Pakistanis were the ones to attack.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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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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[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 oppression of women that an untouchable woman became for him the epitome of purity and benediction.
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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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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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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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It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.
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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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My father was a saint. I'm not.
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Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women's movements of the time she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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