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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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Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it.
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My father was prime minister, and to take care of his home, to be his hostess, automatically meant to have my hands in politics - to meet people, to know their games, their secrets.
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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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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it's by no means dreadful.
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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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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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There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy.
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I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.
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The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.
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In India people can't stomach this attitude of mine, and when I say, 'Hurry up, let's get to the point,' they feel hurt.
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The India I want, I'll never tire of repeating, is a more just and less poor India, one entirely free of foreign influences. If I thought the country was already marching toward these objectives, I'd give up politics immediately and retire as prime minister.
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I don't see the world as something divided between right and left.
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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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