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I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring.

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
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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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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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Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it.
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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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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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To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.
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Still, in international matters, the treaty changes nothing. That is, it doesn't prevent us from being friends with other countries, which indeed we are.
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If by happiness you mean ecstasy ... Yes, I've known ecstasy, and it's a blessing to be able to say it because those who can say it are very few. But ecstasy doesn't last long and is seldom if ever repeated.
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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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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
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Until I was about eighteen, yes [I didn't want to get married]. But not because I felt like a suffragette, but because I wanted to devote all my energies to the struggle to free India. Marriage, I thought, would have distracted me from the duties I'd imposed on myself.
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My father cared very much about courage, physical courage as well. He despised those who didn't have it. But he never said to me, 'I want you to be courageous.' He just smiled with pride every time I did something difficult or won a race with the boys.
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All my games were political games I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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I think I'm cold, indeed icy, hard. Then there's another reason, one that goes with my frankness: I don't put on act.
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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