I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.

Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.

Unfortunately even in India there are people who talk like that. And they're the same ones who say, 'We should never have accepted the existence of Pakistan. Now that it exists, it ought to be destroyed.' But these are only a few madmen who have no following among the masses.

Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it.

in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.

I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger...well, one must risk the danger.

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.