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I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.

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Indira Gandhi
Age: 66 †
Born: 1917
Born: November 19
Died: 1984
Died: October 31
Former Prime Minister Of India
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Indira Nehru
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
Indira Ghandi
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People often ask me: Who has influenced you the most? Your father? Mahatma Gandhi? Yes, my choices were fundamentally influenced by them, by the spirit of equality they infused in me - my obsession for justice comes from my father, who in turn got it from Mahatma Gandhi.
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The life I've had, the difficulties, the hardships, the pain I've suffered since I was a child. It's a great privilege to have led a difficult life, and many people in my generation have had this privilege - I sometimes wonder if young people today aren't deprived of the dramas that shaped us.
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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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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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The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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The doctors shrugged their shoulders and grumbled that perhaps if I were to put on weight that would protect me a little - being so thin, I would never succeed in remaining pregnant.
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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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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.
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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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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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I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
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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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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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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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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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I'm trained to difficulties difficulties can't be eliminated from life.
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I always defended my father, as a child, and I think I'm still defending him - his policies at least. Oh, he wasn't at all a politician, in no sense of the word. He was sustained in his work only by a blind faith in India - he was preoccupied in such an obsessive way by the future of India. We understood each other.
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A lot of mythology arose after [Mahatma Gandhi] death. But the fact remains that he was an exceptional man, terribly intelligent, with tremendous intuition for people, and a great instinct for what was right.
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My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.
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