If you only knew what it did to me to have lived in that house where the police were bursting in to take everyone away! I certainly didn't have a happy and serene childhood.

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

My husband lived in Lucknow. My father lived in Delhi, of course. So I shuttled between Delhi and Lucknow and...naturally, if my husband needed me on days when I was in Delhi, I ran back to Lucknow. But if it was my father who needed me, on the days when I was in Lucknow. And...yes, my husband got angry. And he quarreled. We quarreled. We quarreled a lot. It's true.

When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

Women sometimes go too far, it's true. But it's only when you go too far that others listen.