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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.

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
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Indira Nehru
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
Indira Ghandi
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Nowadays you can no longer let yourself be indoctrinated - the world is changing so fast! Even what you wanted twenty years ago is no longer relevant today it's outdated.
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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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We know very well that India's destiny is linked to world peace.
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You soon realize that the peak you've climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb...And the more you climb, the more you want to climb - even though you're dead tired.
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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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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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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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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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I can't take it seriously when people get excited and scream that religion is in danger, and similar stupidities.
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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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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 don't care if I remain prime minister. I'm only interested in doing a good job as long as I'm capable and for as long as I don't get tired.
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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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I want to succeed. And I want to succeed in the best way possible, without caring whether people call my actions leftist or rightist.
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in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
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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 always stayed married to my husband! Always, until the day he died! It's not true that we were separated!
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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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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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