I've always discovered things for myself, in marvelous freedom.

I've always been able to do what I wanted. On the other hand, my mother was. She considered the fact of being a woman a great disadvantage. She had her reasons. In her day women lived in seclusion - in almost all Indian states they couldn't even show themselves on the street.

I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring.

What we do now, on the other hand...Don't think that I'm crazy about this kind of politics. It's no accident that I've done everything to keep my sons out of it, and so far I've succeeded. After independence I retired immediately from politics.

When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything.

Little by little I changed my mind, and when I was about eighteen, I began to consider the possibility of getting married. Not to have a husband, but to have children.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.