Now I don't get upset by unpleasant things, I don't play the victim, and I'm always ready to come to terms with life.

I examine the consequences later, when a new situation arises and I then face the new situation. And that's it.

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.

[ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is not a very balanced man. When he talks, you never understand what he means. What does he mean this time? That he wants to be friends with us? We've wanted to be friends with him for some time; I've always wanted to.

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.

Still, in international matters, the treaty changes nothing. That is, it doesn't prevent us from being friends with other countries, which indeed we are.