To Become Capable, One Must Have Faith

Until The Day She Died, My Mother Continued To Fight For The Rights Of Women. She Joined All The Women's Movements Of The Time; She Stirred Up A Lot Of Revolts. She Was A Great Woman, A Great Figure. Women Today Would Like Her Immensely.

I Don't At All Care Who's On The Right Or Left Or In The Center. Even Though We Use Them, Even Though I Use Them Myself, These Expressions Have Lost All Meaning.

All Of A Sudden Inscriptions Appeared On Walls. Signs Appeared. And That 'no' Exploded All Over India, In An Act Of Pride That Surprised Even Me. Then Even The Political Parties, All Of Them, Even The Deputies In Parliament, Said No: It's Better To Die Of Hunger Than Be Taken For A Nation Of Beggars.

I Assure You We'll Go On Making Our Decisions Without Worrying Whether It Pleases Or Displeases The Soviet Union, China, America, France, Or Anyone Else.

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.