Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?

Everything that has form must have a beginning and an end.

The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are.

Look here — we shall all die! Bear this in mind always, and then the spirit within will wake up. Then only, meanness will vanish from you, practicality in work will come, you will get new vigour in mind and body, and those who come in contact with you will also feel that they have really got something uplifting from you.

The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about for the country, for India.

Everyone goes with the flow... but the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.

Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much as you can in the case of the plant: you can supply the growing seed with the materials for the making up of its body, bringing to it the earth, the water, the air, that it wants. It will take all that it wants by its own nature, it will assimilate and grow by its own nature.