Indira Gandhi Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• We must protect families, we must protect children, who have inalienable rights and should be loved, should be taken care of physically and mentally, and should not be brought into the world only to suffer.

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Taken, Rights

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

• I was a welfare worker for the Indian Council for Child Welfare. I'll tell you a story. Rajiv was only four years old at that time, and was going to kindergarten. One day the mother of one of his little friends came to see us and said in a sugary voice, 'Oh, it must be so sad for you to have no time to spend with your little boy!' Rajiv roared like a lion: 'My mother spends more time with me than you spend with your little boy, see! Your little boy says you always leave him alone so you can play bridge!' I detest women who do nothing and they play bridge.

  Indira Gandhi

  Mother, Children, Boys

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

• To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.

  Indira Gandhi

  Religious, Children, Blessing

• I grew up like a boy, also because most of the children who came to our house were boys.

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Boys, House

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

• 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

• My children needed me, and I like my job as a social worker.

  Indira Gandhi

  Jobs, Children, Social Worker

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

• 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

  Children, Pain, Drama

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

• I went back into politics only when it was clear that things weren't going as they should have in my party. I was always arguing, I argued with everyone - with my father, with the leaders I had known since I was a child...and one day, it was in 1955, one of them exclaimed, 'You do nothing but criticize! If you think you can correct things, correct them. Go ahead, why don't you try?' Well, I could never resist a challenge, so I tried.

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Father, Party

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

• 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.

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Stress, Epic

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

• 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

  Children, Father, Thinking

• Whether when I was a child and fought the British in the Monkey brigade, or when I was a girl and wanted to have children, or when I was a woman and devoted myself to my father, making my husband angry. Each time I stayed involved all the way in my decision, and took the consequences. Even if I was fighting for things that didn't concern India.

  Indira Gandhi

  Girl, Children, Husband

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

• I myself, in my heart, say that people should have all the children they want. But it's a mistaken idea, like many of our ideas that go back thousands of years, and it must be rooted out.

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Heart, Should Have

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

• 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.

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Husband, Mind

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

• When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Children, Care

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

• 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.

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Husband, Two

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

• When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children. Or else I'll start studying anthropology - it's a science that's always interested me very much, also in relation to the problem of poverty. Or else I'll go back to studying history - at Oxford I took my degree in history. Or else...I don't know, I'm fascinated by the tribal communities. I might busy myself with them.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Children, Oxford

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

• 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.

• The doctors advised me not to have even one. My health was still not good, and they said that pregnancy might be fatal. If they hadn't said that to me, maybe I wouldn't have got married. But that diagnosis provoked me, it infuriated me. I answered, 'Why do you think I'm getting married if not to have children? I don't want to hear that I can't have children; I want you to tell me what I have to do in order to have children!'

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Pregnancy, Thinking

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

• I see nothing wrong in sterilizing a man who has already brought eight or ten children into the world. Especially if it helps those eight or ten children to live better.

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Men, Eight

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

• I've never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don't allow themselves any other activities.

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Victim, Understood

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

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