“[ 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.” MenWantMeanDoeWantedBalancedBhutto Author:Indira Gandhi
“Nowadays you can no longer let yourself be indoctrinated - the world is changing so fast! Even what you wanted twenty years ago is no longer relevant today; it's outdated.” WorldYearsTodayWantedYears AgoTwentiesRelevantOutdated Author:Indira Gandhi
“Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the poor among the tribes, the poor who live in the forest, the poor who live on the mountains. Should we ignore them as long as the poor in the cities are better off? And better off with reference to what? To what people wanted ten years ago? Then it seemed like so much. Today it's no longer so much.” PeopleShouldYearsLongTodayWantedPoorCitiesPovertyTenMountainAspectYears AgoIndiaAssumingForestsTribesBetter Off Author:Indira Gandhi
“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.” StatesReasonFactsShowsHandsAbleWantedMotherStreetsIndianDisadvantagesBeing A WomanSeclusion Author:Indira Gandhi
“I discovered [Joan of Arc] toward the age of ten or twelve, when I went to France. I don't remember where I read about her, but I recall that she immediately took on a definite importance for me. I wanted to sacrifice my life for my country. It seems like foolishness and yet...what happens when we're children is engraved forever on our lives.” ChildrenCountrySeemsHappensAgeWantedRememberForeverOur LivesSacrificeTenImportanceFranceTwelveRecallsDefiniteFoolishnessArcsEngraved Author:Indira Gandhi
“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.” WantWantedEnergyFeltStruggleDutyMarriedIndiaDistractedEighteenSuffragettes Author:Indira Gandhi
“I always wanted to have children - if it had been up to me, I would have had eleven. It was my husband who wanted only two.” IfsChildrenTwoWantedHusbandMy HusbandEleven Author:Indira Gandhi
“No one wanted that marriage, no one. Even Mahatma Gandhi wasn't happy about it. As for my father...it's not true that he opposed it, as people say, but he wasn't eager for it. I suppose because the fathers of only daughters would prefer to see them get married as late as possible.” PeopleWantedFatherLateMarriedDaughterOnly Daughter Author:Indira Gandhi
“We were to equally strong types [with my husband], equally pigheaded - neither of us wanted to give in. And...I like to think those quarrels made us better, that they enlivened our life, because without them we would have had a normal life, yes, but banal and boring.” ThinkingGivingMadeWantedStrongOur LivesTypeHusbandNormalBoringMy HusbandQuarrelsNormal Life Author:Indira Gandhi
“Everything I've done, I've done because I wanted to do it. In doing it, I've plunged in headlong, always believing in it.” BelieveDoneWanted Author:Indira Gandhi
“Whether when I was a child and fought the British in the Monkey brigade, or when I was a girl and wanted to have children, or when I was a woman and devoted myself to my father, making my husband angry. Each time I stayed involved all the way in my decision, and took the consequences. Even if I was fighting for things that didn't concern India.” IfsWayChildrenWantedGirlFightingFatherDecisionInvolvedHusbandConsequenceConcernIndiaAngryBritishMy HusbandDevotedMonkeys Author:Indira Gandhi
