Mother Quotes by Indira Gandhi

My sons...I was crazy about my sons and I think I've done a super job in bringing them up.

— Indira Gandhi

To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice - I savored every minute of those years.

— Indira Gandhi

I always wanted to have children - if it had been up to me, I would have had eleven. It was my…

— Indira Gandhi

I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.

— Indira Gandhi

I know you were surprised when, after the fall of Dacca, Pakistani and Indian officers shook hands. But do you realize that,…

— Indira Gandhi

For me it's absolutely the same - I treat one and the other in exactly the same way. As persons, that is,…

— Indira Gandhi

Muslim women had to go out in purdah, that heavy sheet that covers even the eyes. Hindu women had to go out…

— Indira Gandhi

[My mother] was the oldest of two sisters and two brothers, and she grew up with her brothers, who were about her…

— Indira Gandhi

I've always been able to do what I wanted. On the other hand, my mother was. She considered the fact of being…

— Indira Gandhi

I began to associate with Mahatma Gandhi when he came and went in our house - together with my father and mother…

— Indira Gandhi

Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women's movements of…

— Indira Gandhi

It's not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn't be able to say whether my…

— Indira Gandhi

At a certain point the family moved to Jaipur, where no woman could avoid the doli or purdah. They kept her in…

— Indira Gandhi

I was a welfare worker for the Indian Council for Child Welfare. I'll tell you a story. Rajiv was only four years…

— Indira Gandhi

Not only my parents but the whole family was involved in the resistance - my grandfather and grandmother, my uncles and aunts,…

— Indira Gandhi