Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man

If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.

Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.

If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.

Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.

I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart.

If I could wake all of the women of Asia, India could be won in a day.

A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old.

What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?

The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status.

Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.

For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body.

Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone.