As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.

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.

If I'm happy, I look happy; if I'm angry, I show it. Without worrying about how others may react.

Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and doctrines and they tend to impose on the developing nations their own norms and methods. The pattern of the classical acquisitive society with its deliberate multiplication of wants not only is unsuited to conditions in our countries but is positively harmful.

Naturally, if the Americans had fired a shot, if the Seventh Fleet had done something more than sit there in the Bay of Bengal...yes, the Third World War would have exploded. But, in all honesty, not even that fear occurred to me.

People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it's by no means dreadful.