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Quote by Indira Gandhi

“If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.”

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Indira Gandhi, born on November 19, 1917, and died on October 31, 1984, was the first female Prime Minister of India and one of the longest-serving Prime Ministers in Indian history. more

“I met Indira Gandhi in her office in the government palace. The same office that had been her father's - large, cold and plain. She was sitting, small and slender, behind a bare desk. When I entered, she got up and came forward to give me her hand, then sat down again and cut the preliminaries short by fixing me with a gaze that meant: Go ahead with the first question, don't waste time, I really have no time to waste.”

Giving Firsts Hands Government Father Behinds Cutting Cold Mets Office Waste Sitting Give Me Sat Wasting Time Desks Palaces Fixing Slender Don't Waste Time No Time To Waste

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“[Indira Gandhi] answered cautiously at first. Then she opened up like a flower and the conversation flowed along without obstacles, in mutual sympathy.”

Firsts Flower Conversation Obstacles Mutual

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“We all may have prejudices, but we're not all part of a system that reinforces, reinvents and reaffirms itself every day of our lives, systemically.”

May Our Lives Prejudice

Author:Bell Hooks

“We don't really live in a culture that loves boys or loves children, and we don't encourage boys to be whole.”

Children Whole Culture Boys Children Love

Author:Bell Hooks

“Intersectionality allow us to focus on what is most important at a given point in time.”

Important Given Focus Intersectionality

Author:Bell Hooks

“[Indira Gandhi] looked tired that day, and all of a sudden I exclaimed, 'Deep down I don't envy you, and I shouldn't like to be in your place.' And she said, 'The problem is not in the problems I have, it's in the idiots around me. Democracy, you know...' I now wonder what she meant by that unfinished phrase.”

Knows Said Problem Wonder Democracy Tired Envy Idiot Phrases Deep Down Unfinished

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“Sometimes I ask myself whether [Indira Gandhi] had, even then, a certain contempt for the system she represented and, years later, would overthrow.”

Years Sometimes Certain Asks Contempt

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“If we move away from either/or thinking, and if we think, okay, every day of my life that I walk out of my house I am a combination of race, gender, class, sexual preference and religion or what have you, what gets foregrounded?”

Ifs Thinking Moving House Walks Race Class Okay Gender Combination Preference Either Or

Author:Bell Hooks

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