We must protect families, we must protect children, who have inalienable rights and should be loved, should be taken care of physically and mentally, and should not be brought into the world only to suffer.

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.

what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.

My fiancé, you see, belonged to another religion. He was a Parsi. And this was something nobody could stand - all of India was against us. They wrote to Gandhi, to my fther, to me. Insults, death threats. Every day the postman arrived with an enormous sack and dumped the letters on the floor. We even stopped reading them; we let a couple of friends read them and tell us what was in them.

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.

My sons...I was crazy about my sons and I think I've done a super job in bringing them up.

We would rather starve than sell our national honor.