As my father [Javฤharlฤl Nehrลซ] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.
Indira GandhiUntil I was about eighteen, yes [I didn't want to get married]. But not because I felt like a suffragette, but because I wanted to devote all my energies to the struggle to free India. Marriage, I thought, would have distracted me from the duties I'd imposed on myself.
Indira Gandhi