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

I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.

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

When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children.

I don't see the world as something divided between right and left.

At first people asked us, 'Can you do it?' And we kept silent because we didn't believe in ourselves, we didn't believe that we could do things. Today people no longer say to us, 'Can you?' They say, 'When can you?' Because the Indians finally believe in themselves, they believe they can do things.

I think I'm cold, indeed icy, hard. Then there's another reason, one that goes with my frankness: I don't put on act.