I grew up like a boy, also because most of the children who came to our house were boys.

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.

In India's distant past, when the population was low, the blessing given a woman was, 'May you have many children.' Most of our epics and literature stress this wish, and the idea that a woman should have many children hasn't declined.

You say this victory is dangerous. I say that today no one can yet tell if it's dangerous, that today I don't see the risks you mention. If, however, those risks should become reality...I'll act in accordance with the new reality.

The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.

I discovered [Joan of Arc] toward the age of ten or twelve, when I went to France. I don't remember where I read about her, but I recall that she immediately took on a definite importance for me. I wanted to sacrifice my life for my country. It seems like foolishness and yet...what happens when we're children is engraved forever on our lives.