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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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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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In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.
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I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India.
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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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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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What we do now, on the other hand...Don't think that I'm crazy about this kind of politics. It's no accident that I've done everything to keep my sons out of it, and so far I've succeeded. After independence I retired immediately from politics.
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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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The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.
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I grew up like a boy, also because most of the children who came to our house were boys.
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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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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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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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When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react.
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Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.
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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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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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Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know.
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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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Maybe I would have considered the problem if I'd met someone with whom I'd have liked to live. But I never met this someone and... No, even if I had met him, I'm sure I wouldn't have got married again. Why should I get married now that my life is so full? No, no, it's out of the question.
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Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.
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