You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.

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.

I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies to be nursed but men and women who attacked barracks and ended up in prison.

I'm not ambitious. Not a bit.

People who say it was her father who prepared her for the post of prime minister, it was her father who launched her, are wrong.

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

In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.