Indira Gandhi Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.

  Indira Gandhi

  Cutting, Class, Age

  Indira Gandhi (1985). “Selected thoughts of Indira Gandhi: a book of quotes”

• Do you know that, until recently, poor people brought children into the world for the sole purpose of making use of them? But how can you change, by force or all of a sudden, an age-old habit? The only way is to plan births, by one means or another.

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Mean, Old Habits

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• [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.'

  Indira Gandhi

  Mother, Brother, Destiny

• 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

  Country, Children, Sacrifice

• I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.

  Indira Gandhi

  Moving, Eight, Years

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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