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In responding to an interviewer who asked when she first became involved in politics, Indira Gandhi said: “It is impossible to say. I do not remember any time when I was not involved.”1 In describing her early life, she later wrote that all the games she played were political, and her favorite game was “to collect as many servants as I could, stand on a table and deliver a speech—repeating disjointed phrases that I had picked up from grown-up talk.”2
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Indira Gandhi, Speeches and Writings (NY: Harper & Row, 1975), p. 14.
Quoted in Trevor Drieberg, Indira Gandhi (NY: Drake, 1973), p. 3.
Maureen Seneviratne, Sirimavo Bandaranaike (Colombo: Hansa, 1975), p. 111.
Quoted in Eliyahu Agress, Golda Meir, trans. By Israel I. Taslitt (NY: Sabra Books, 1969), p. 12.
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, Dreams of the Heart (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1996), p. 34.
See Victoria Secunda, Women and their Fathers (NY: Delacorte Press, 1992).
See Speech at Mahila Vidyaapith, Allahabad, Mar. 31, 1928, reprinted in S. Gopal (ed.), Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Vol. 3 (New Delhi: Orient Longmans, 1972), pp. 361–2.
Sonia Gandhi (ed.), Freedom’s Daughter: Letters between Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, 1922–1939 (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1989).
Ian Jack, “The Destiny of Benazir Bhutto,” Vanity Fair, 49 (May 1986), p. 73.
Oriana Fallaci, “Ali Bhutto,” Interview with History, trans. John Shepley (NY: Liveright, 1976), p. 201.
Tricia Murray, Margaret Thatcher (London: W. H. Allen, 1978), p. 19.
Brian Edwards, Helen: Portrait of a Prime Minister (Auckland: Exisle, 2001), p. 78.
Indira Gandhi, My Truth (NY: Grove Press, 1981), p. 12.
Jawaharlal Nehru, An Autobiography (Bombay: Allied, 1962), p. 240.
For a discussion of child rearing in India, see Sudhir Kakar, The Inner World (NY: Oxford University Press, rev. 2nd ed., 1981).
Charles L. Sanders, “Dominica,” Ebony, 36 (July 1981), p. 116.
Interview with William Stewart and Nelly Sindayen, Time, 129 (Jan. 5, 1987), p. 32.
Golda Meir, My Life (NY: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1975), p. 15.
Fred Hauphfubrer, “On Top of the World,” People Weekly, 27 (Apr. 20, 1987), p. 38.
See Benjamin Garber, “Mourning in Adolescence,” Adolescent Psychiatry, 12 (1985), pp. 371–87.
E. Kaye Fulton and Mary Janigan, “The Real Kim Campbell,” Maclean’s, 106 (May 17, 1993), p. 19.
Virginia Myers, Head and Shoulders (NY: Penguin, 1986), p. 151.
Blema S. Steinberg, “The Making of Female Presidents and Prime Ministers: The Impact of Birth Order, Sex of Siblings, and Father-Daughter Dynamics,” Political Psychology, 22 (No. 1, 2001), p. 106.
Nancy Gibbs, “Norway’s Radical Daughter,” Time, 148 (Sep. 25, 1989) p. 44.
Maureen Orth, “Proud Mary,” Vanity Fair, 55 (July 1992), p. 130.
Quoted in Charlotte Gray, “The New F-Word,” Saturday Night, 104 (Apr. 1989), p. 19.
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Jensen, J.S. (2008). The Early Years. In: Women Political Leaders. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230616851_5
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