Indira Gandhi

“My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.”

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi, née Nehru (1917 – 1984) was an Indian politician and thus far the only female Prime Minister of India. The daughter of India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, she served as Prime Minister from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984.