If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.

Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.

Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.

We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.

Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.

I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.