Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and doctrines and they tend to impose on the developing nations their own norms and methods. The pattern of the classical acquisitive society with its deliberate multiplication of wants not only is unsuited to conditions in our countries but is positively harmful.

To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice - I savored every minute of those years.

I assure you we'll go on making our decisions without worrying whether it pleases or displeases the Soviet Union, China, America, France, or anyone else.

Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve.

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.

I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.

This is also something I've learned from experience. Didn't they perhaps give us the vote because we went too far?