- “I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.”
- “The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.”
- “Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a state of the mind.”
- “If you want to give a new face to India, if you want to create a new India, then you will have to strain every nerve, you will have to sweat and you will have to suffer. You will have to suffer and sacrifice everything for the country.”
- “Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.”
- “I am proud of being an Indian. I am part of the indivisible unity that is Indian nationality. I am indispensable to this noble edifice and without me, this splendid structure is incomplete.”
- “I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.”
- “Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle.”