The doctors advised me not to have even one. My health was still not good, and they said that pregnancy might be fatal. If they hadn't said that to me, maybe I wouldn't have got married. But that diagnosis provoked me, it infuriated me. I answered, 'Why do you think I'm getting married if not to have children? I don't want to hear that I can't have children; I want you to tell me what I have to do in order to have children!'

I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.

I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India.

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

At no point, at a very important point: that of having convinced the Indians that they can do things.

In India people can't stomach this attitude of mine, and when I say, 'Hurry up, let's get to the point,' they feel hurt.

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