If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.

The life I've had, the difficulties, the hardships, the pain I've suffered since I was a child. It's a great privilege to have led a difficult life, and many people in my generation have had this privilege - I sometimes wonder if young people today aren't deprived of the dramas that shaped us.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.

I always stayed married to my husband! Always, until the day he died! It's not true that we were separated!

I said, I'll put on weight. And I started having massages, taking cod-liver oil, and eating twice as much. But I didn't even gain an ounce. I'd made up my mind that on the day the engagement was announced I'd be fatter, and I didn't gain an ounce. Then I went to Mussoorie, which is a health resort, and I ignored the doctors' instructions; I invented my own regime and gained weight. Just the opposite of what I'd like now. Now I have the problem of keeping slim. Still I manage. I don't know if you realize I'm a determined woman.