This is also something I've learned from experience. Didn't they perhaps give us the vote because we went too far?

For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.

At a certain point the family moved to Jaipur, where no woman could avoid the doli or purdah. They kept her in the house from morning to night, either cooking or doing nothing. [My mother] hated doing nothing, she hated to cook. So she became pale and ill, and far from being concerned about her health, my grandfather said, 'Who's going to marry her now?' So my grandmother waited for my grandfather to go out, and then she dressed my mother as a man and let her go out riding with her brothers.

The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated.

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.

A lot of mythology arose after [Mahatma Gandhi] death. But the fact remains that he was an exceptional man, terribly intelligent, with tremendous intuition for people, and a great instinct for what was right.

Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it.