"Little by little I changed my mind,..." - Quote by Indira Gandhi

“[My mother] was the oldest of two sisters and two brothers, and she grew up with her brothers, who were about her age. She grew up, to the age of ten, like a wild colt, and then all of a sudden that was over. They had forced on her her 'woman's destiny' by saying, 'This isn't done, this isn't good, this isn't worthy of a lady.'”

“I don't see why we and the Chinese should have to be enemies.”

“In India's distant past, when the population was low, the blessing given a woman was, 'May you have many children.' Most of our epics and literature stress this wish, and the idea that a woman should have many children hasn't declined.”

“Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.”

“In your hands you hold the seeds of failure - or the potential for greatness.”

“People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.”

“Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.”

“Elena, my four year old, says to me in all seriousness; "Mommy, you need to buy another baby".”

“Tell the children the truth.”