Happiness is such a fleeting point of view - there's no such thing as continual happiness. Indira Gandhi More Quotes by Indira Gandhi More Quotes From Indira Gandhi Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power. Indira Gandhi wielding-powerpoliticsart in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence. Indira Gandhi independentcountryworld Maybe I would have considered the problem if I'd met someone with whom I'd have liked to live. But I never met this someone and... No, even if I had met him, I'm sure I wouldn't have got married again. Why should I get married now that my life is so full? No, no, it's out of the question. Indira Gandhi marriedproblemlife-is If you only knew, for instance, how much I enjoy being a grandmother! Do you know I'm twice a grandmother? Rajiv and Sonia have had a boy and a girl. Indira Gandhi grandmothergirlboys The doctors shrugged their shoulders and grumbled that perhaps if I were to put on weight that would protect me a little - being so thin, I would never succeed in remaining pregnant. Indira Gandhi doctorsweightlittles If you only knew what it did to me to have lived in that house where the police were bursting in to take everyone away! I certainly didn't have a happy and serene childhood. Indira Gandhi childhoodpolicehouse The life I've had, the difficulties, the hardships, the pain I've suffered since I was a child. It's a great privilege to have led a difficult life, and many people in my generation have had this privilege - I sometimes wonder if young people today aren't deprived of the dramas that shaped us. Indira Gandhi paindramachildren 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. Indira Gandhi sacrificecountrychildren People often ask me: Who has influenced you the most? Your father? Mahatma Gandhi? Yes, my choices were fundamentally influenced by them, by the spirit of equality they infused in me - my obsession for justice comes from my father, who in turn got it from Mahatma Gandhi. Indira Gandhi justicefatherpeople It was the very fact that no one ever imposed anything on me or tried to impose himself on the others. Indira Gandhi facts My father cared very much about courage, physical courage as well. He despised those who didn't have it. But he never said to me, 'I want you to be courageous.' He just smiled with pride every time I did something difficult or won a race with the boys. Indira Gandhi prideboysfather It's not at all hard to reconcile the two things if you organize your time intelligently. Even when my sons were little, I was working. Indira Gandhi littlestwoson 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. Indira Gandhi doctorsoilopposites 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. Indira Gandhi daughterfatherpeople Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because its goal was the conquest of freedom. Indira Gandhi goalbeautifulfather Mahatma Gandhi was always talking of religion...He was convinced that was right...The fact is, we young people didn't agree with him on many things. Indira Gandhi talkingfactspeople My children needed me, and I like my job as a social worker. Indira Gandhi social-workerjobschildren My sons...I was crazy about my sons and I think I've done a super job in bringing them up. Indira Gandhi crazyjobsson [Mahatma Gandhi] said that the first president of India ought to be a harijan girl, an untouchable. He was so against the class system and the oppression of women that an untouchable woman became for him the epitome of purity and benediction. Indira Gandhi class-systemgirlpresident 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. Indira Gandhi fatherchildrenthinking
