Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it.

When you look at the beginning of the actual war, it's not hard to recognize that the Pakistanis were the ones to attack.

Whether when I was a child and fought the British in the Monkey brigade, or when I was a girl and wanted to have children, or when I was a woman and devoted myself to my father, making my husband angry. Each time I stayed involved all the way in my decision, and took the consequences. Even if I was fighting for things that didn't concern India.

It depends on what you mean by the word religion. Certainly I don't go to temples and pray to the gods or anything like that.

I suspected [Richard Nixon] was very pro-Pakistan. Or rather I knew that the Americans had always been in favor of Pakistan - not so much because they were in favor of Pakistan, but because they were against India.

When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react.

Satisfied is a word I use only in reference to my country, and I'll never be satisfied for my country. For this reasons I go on taking difficult paths, and between a paved road and a footpath that goes up the mountain, I choose the footpath. To the great irritation of my bodyguards.