I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.

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.

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 was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.

At no point, at a very important point: that of having convinced the Indians that they can do things.

I said that my father was not a politician. I, instead, think I am. But not in the sense of being interested in a political career - rather in the sense that I think it necessary to strive to build a certain India, the India I want.