“You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.” InspirationalStillsWomenFreedomAliveActivityEmpowermentEmpoweringMidstWomen EmpowermentEmpoweredEmpowering WomenSelf EmpowermentReposeEmpowered WomenWomen Empowering WomenWise WomenI Am WomanDeath Anniversary Author:Indira Gandhi
“India had barely become independent, in 1947, when Pakistan invaded Kashmir, which at the time was ruled by a maharajah. The maharajah fled, and the people of Kashmir, led by Sheikh Abdullah, asked for Indian help. Lord [Louis] Mountbatten, who was still governor general, replied that he wouldn't be able to supply aid to Kashmir unless Pakistan declared war, and he didn't seem bothered by the fact that the Pakistanis were slaughtering the population.” PeopleStillsWarFactsHelpingSeemsAbleLordIndiaIndependentPopulationAidsIndianGovernorsPakistanBotheredKashmir Author:Indira Gandhi
“You found an uncle on one side and a nephew on the other, a cousin here and a cousin there. Besides it's still true today. I'll tell you something else. There was a time when even two ambassadors to Switzerland, the one from India and the one from Pakistan, were two blood brothers. Oh, the Partition imposed on us by the British was so unnatural!” StillsTwoTodayFoundSidesBloodBrotherIndiaBritishUnclesPakistanCousinUnnaturalAmbassadorsSwitzerlandNephewPartitionBlood Brothers Author:Indira Gandhi
“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.” StillsCountryMatterInternationalOther CountriesTreaties Author:Indira Gandhi
“I suggested a compromise to give the banks a year's time and see if they succeed in showing us that nationalization wasn't necessary. The year went by and we realized it hadn't done any good, that the money still ended up in the hands of the rich industrialists or friends of the bankers. So I concluded that it was necessary to nationalize the banks. And we did. Without considering it a socialist gesture or an antisocialist gesture, just a necessary one. Anyone who nationalizes only so as to be considered on the left to me is a fool.” IfsGivingYearsStillsDoneHandsLeftRichFoolSucceedCompromiseGesturesSocialistConsideringBankers Author:Indira Gandhi
“For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.” YearsStillsPovertyIndiaThrough The Years Author:Indira Gandhi
“You soon realize that the peak you've climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb...And the more you climb, the more you want to climb - even though you're dead tired.” WantStillsRealizingMountainTiredChainsClimbsLowest Author:Indira Gandhi
“Just when you think you've achieved something, you realize you've achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same - toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.” ThinkingStillsEndsDreamRealizing Author:Indira Gandhi
“I always defended my father, as a child, and I think I'm still defending him - his policies at least. Oh, he wasn't at all a politician, in no sense of the word. He was sustained in his work only by a blind faith in India - he was preoccupied in such an obsessive way by the future of India. We understood each other.” ThinkingWayChildrenStillsFatherPolicyPoliticianUnderstoodIndiaBlindObsessiveBlind Faith Author:Indira Gandhi
“The doctors advised me not to have even one. My health was still not good, and they said that pregnancy might be fatal. If they hadn't said that to me, maybe I wouldn't have got married. But that diagnosis provoked me, it infuriated me. I answered, 'Why do you think I'm getting married if not to have children? I don't want to hear that I can't have children; I want you to tell me what I have to do in order to have children!'” IfsThinkingWantChildrenSaidStillsI CanMightOrderMarriedDoctorsPregnancyI Want YouThey SaidDiagnosisGetting MarriedProvoked Author:Indira Gandhi
“I said, I'll put on weight. And I started having massages, taking cod-liver oil, and eating twice as much. But I didn't even gain an ounce. I'd made up my mind that on the day the engagement was announced I'd be fatter, and I didn't gain an ounce. Then I went to Mussoorie, which is a health resort, and I ignored the doctors' instructions; I invented my own regime and gained weight. Just the opposite of what I'd like now. Now I have the problem of keeping slim. Still I manage. I don't know if you realize I'm a determined woman.” IfsKnowsMindMadeSaidStillsProblemRealizingMy OwnEatingGainsDoctorsOppositesWeightDeterminedOilManageEngagementInstructionRegimesIgnoredResortsLiverMassageSlimDetermined Woman Author:Indira Gandhi
“One day in 1965 Rajiv wrote me from London, where he was studying, and informed me, 'You're always asking me about girls, whether I have a special girl, and so forth. Well, I've met a special girl.' And when Rajiv returned to India, I asked him, 'Do you still think about her in the same way?' And he said yes. But she couldn't get married until she was twenty-one, and until she was sure she'd like to live in India. Sonia is almost completely an Indian by now, even though she doesn't always wear saris.” ThinkingWayWellsSaidStillsGirlStudySpecialMetsOne DayMarriedIndiaTwentiesAskingLondonIndianTwenty OneSari Author:Indira Gandhi
