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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.

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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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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Home is wherever I go.
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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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It was the very fact that no one ever imposed anything on me or tried to impose himself on the others.
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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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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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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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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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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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[ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is not a very balanced man. When he talks, you never understand what he means. What does he mean this time? That he wants to be friends with us? We've wanted to be friends with him for some time I've always wanted to.
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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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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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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 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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My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.
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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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I see nothing wrong in sterilizing a man who has already brought eight or ten children into the world. Especially if it helps those eight or ten children to live better.
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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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No one ever indoctrinated me.
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The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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