Women sometimes go too far, it's true. But it's only when you go too far that others listen.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

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.

Now I don't get upset by unpleasant things, I don't play the victim, and I'm always ready to come to terms with life.

No one ever indoctrinated me.

Difficulties can't be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them...The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It's all right to fight, yes, but only when it's possible.

To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.