At first people asked us, 'Can you do it?' And we kept silent because we didn't believe in ourselves, we didn't believe that we could do things. Today people no longer say to us, 'Can you?' They say, 'When can you?' Because the Indians finally believe in themselves, they believe they can do things.

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.

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.

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

Little by little I changed my mind, and when I was about eighteen, I began to consider the possibility of getting married. Not to have a husband, but to have children.

We know very well that India's destiny is linked to world peace.

I can't take it seriously when people get excited and scream that religion is in danger, and similar stupidities.