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

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.

The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.

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.

Just when you think you've achieved something, you realize you've achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same - toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.

Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it.

That's always been my philosophy. - I've never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.