I always wanted to have children - if it had been up to me, I would have had eleven. It was my husband who wanted only two.

Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.

People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

People often ask me: Who has influenced you the most? Your father? Mahatma Gandhi? Yes, my choices were fundamentally influenced by them, by the spirit of equality they infused in me - my obsession for justice comes from my father, who in turn got it from Mahatma Gandhi.

It was the very fact that no one ever imposed anything on me or tried to impose himself on the others.

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

I remember harrowing episodes. People who emigrated, people who didn't want to emigrate...Many Muslims didn't want to leave India to go to live in Pakistan, but the propaganda was that there they'd have greater opportunities and so they left. Many Hindus, on the other hand, didn't want to stay in Pakistan, but they had ties there or property and so they stayed.