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.

I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger...well, one must risk the danger.

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.

The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.

Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women's movements of the time; she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.

Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.

The Western press has always insisted that India was Pakistan's enemy and vice versa, that the Hindus were against the Muslims and vice versa. They've never said, for instance, that my party has been fighting this attitude ever since we have maintained that religious hostilities are wrong and absurd, that minorities cannot be eliminated from a country, that people of different religions must live together.