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

As a nation, I believe we've acquired faith in ourselves.

I was a welfare worker for the Indian Council for Child Welfare. I'll tell you a story. Rajiv was only four years old at that time, and was going to kindergarten. One day the mother of one of his little friends came to see us and said in a sugary voice, 'Oh, it must be so sad for you to have no time to spend with your little boy!' Rajiv roared like a lion: 'My mother spends more time with me than you spend with your little boy, see! Your little boy says you always leave him alone so you can play bridge!' I detest women who do nothing and they play bridge.

Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know.

Until today the rights of people have always been put forward by a few individuals acting in the name of the masses. Today instead of people no longer want to be represented; each wants to speak for himself and participate directly - it's the same for the Negroes, for the Jews, for women.

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.

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.