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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.

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
Husband
Two
Wanted
Children
Always
Would
Eleven

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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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[My mother] was the oldest of two sisters and two brothers, and she grew up with her brothers, who were about her age. She grew up, to the age of ten, like a wild colt, and then all of a sudden that was over. They had forced on her her 'woman's destiny' by saying, 'This isn't done, this isn't good, this isn't worthy of a lady.'
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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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Finally we promised to limit the birth rate. And this you really didn't believe you smiled scornfully. Well, even in this things have gone well. The fact is that we have grown by over seventy millions in ten years, but it's also true that we have grown less than many other countries, including the countries of Europe.
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Muslim women had to go out in purdah, that heavy sheet that covers even the eyes. Hindu women had to go out in the doli, a kind of closed sedan chair like a catafalque. My mother always told me about these things with bitterness and rage.
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It's not at all hard to reconcile the two things if you organize your time intelligently. Even when my sons were little, I was working.
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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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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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It's the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I'm not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I'm for nationalization in cases where it's necessary.
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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 else. There was a time when even two ambassadors to Switzerland, the one from India and the one from Pakistan, were two blood brothers. Oh, the Partition imposed on us by the British was so unnatural!
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Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.
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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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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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