Indira Gandhi Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

• 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.

• 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

  House, Childhood, Police

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

• I began to associate with Mahatma Gandhi when he came and went in our house - together with my father and mother he was on the executive committee. After independence I worked with him a lot - in the period when there were the troubles between Hindus and Muslims, he assigned me to take care of the Muslims. To protect them.

  Indira Gandhi

  Mother, Father, House

• At a certain point the family moved to Jaipur, where no woman could avoid the doli or purdah. They kept her in the house from morning to night, either cooking or doing nothing. [My mother] hated doing nothing, she hated to cook. So she became pale and ill, and far from being concerned about her health, my grandfather said, 'Who's going to marry her now?' So my grandmother waited for my grandfather to go out, and then she dressed my mother as a man and let her go out riding with her brothers.

  Indira Gandhi

  Mother, Morning, Brother

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

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