Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied.

I don't see why we and the Chinese should have to be enemies.

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

Naturally, if the Americans had fired a shot, if the Seventh Fleet had done something more than sit there in the Bay of Bengal...yes, the Third World War would have exploded. But, in all honesty, not even that fear occurred to me.

For me it's absolutely the same - I treat one and the other in exactly the same way. As persons, that is, not as men and women. But, even here, you have to consider the fact that I've had a very special education, that I'm the daughter of a man like my father and a woman like my mother.

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.

In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.