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

When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react.

I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people ... I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.

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

I like to think I've provided this faith. I also think that by providing faith, I've focused their pride. I say focused because pride isn't something you give. It doesn't even break out suddenly; it's a feeling that grows very slowly, very confusedly.

Until 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.