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.

We must protect families, we must protect children, who have inalienable rights and should be loved, should be taken care of physically and mentally, and should not be brought into the world only to suffer.

In fact the communists gained strength in India when the people thought my party was moving to the right. And they were correct.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.

Life is always full of dangers and I don't think one should avoid dangers.

It's not at all hard to reconcile the two things if you organize your time intelligently. Even when my sons were little, I was working.