If we offer something to Bangladesh, it's obvious that Bangladesh is offering something to us. And why shouldn't Bangladesh be able to keep its promises? Economically it's full of resources and can stand on its feet. Politically it seems to me led by trained people. The refugees who took shelter here are going home.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women's movements of the time; she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.

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

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.

You've never been very generous, you Westerners, toward us Indians. You should have seen that things were changing, albeit slowly. You should have seen that something was happening. Not much, but something.

The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.