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"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."
"I think I'm cold, indeed icy, hard. Then there's another reason, one that goes with my frankness: I don't put on act."
"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."
"You must also understand us - always undervalued, underestimated, not believed. Even when we believed, you didn't believe us. You said, 'How is it possible to fight without violence?' But without violence we obtained freedom."
"Little by little I changed my mind, and when I was about eighteen, I began to consider the possibility of getting married. Not to have a husband, but to have children."
"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."
"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 Even what you wanted twenty years ago is no longer relevant today; it's outdated."
"Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future."
"I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go."
"The word 'when' is so important for a people, for an individual! If an individual thinks he won't do it, he'll never do it. Even if he's highly intelligent, even if he has countless talents."
"I don't at all care who's on the right or left or in the center. Even though we use them, even though I use them myself, these expressions have lost all meaning."
"My sons...I was crazy about my sons and I think I've done a super job in bringing them up."
"Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it."
"I said that my father was not a politician. I, instead, think I am. But not in the sense of being interested in a political career - rather in the sense that I think it necessary to strive to build a certain India, the India I want."
"The International Control Commission isn't doing anything, it's never done anything. What good does it do to be on it or not? Before opening the embassy in Hanoi, I gave it a lot of thought, but it wasn't really a painful decision. American policy in Vietnam is what it is, in Saigon the situation is anything but normal, and I'm happy to have done what I did."
"It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no."
"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."
"You've never been very generous, you Westerners, toward us Indians. You should have seen that things were changing, albeit slowly. You should have seen that something was happening. Not much, but something."
"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."
"I assure you we'll go on making our decisions without worrying whether it pleases or displeases the Soviet Union, China, America, France, or anyone else."