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.

Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.

In India's distant past, when the population was low, the blessing given a woman was, 'May you have many children.' Most of our epics and literature stress this wish, and the idea that a woman should have many children hasn't declined.

With boys I climbed trees, ran races, and wrestled. I had no complexes of envy or inferiority toward boys. At the same time, however, I liked dolls.

Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.

Muslim women had to go out in purdah, that heavy sheet that covers even the eyes. Hindu women had to go out in the doli, a kind of closed sedan chair like a catafalque. My mother always told me about these things with bitterness and rage.

My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.