Kasturba Gandhi Quotes in Gandhi (1982)

Margaret Bourke-White: [interviewing Ba in prison] Is it hard, being separated this way?

Kasturba Gandhi: Yes. But we see each other in the day.

Margaret Bourke-White: But not at night?

Kasturba Gandhi: In Hindu philosophy the way to God is to free yourself of possessions, and the passions that inflame anger and jealousy. Bapu has always struggled to find the way to God.

Margaret Bourke-White: You mean he gave up... married life?

Kasturba Gandhi: Four times he tried, and failed. But then he took a solemn vow.

Margaret Bourke-White: And he has never broken it?

Kasturba Gandhi: Not yet.

Kasturba Gandhi: Sora was sent to tell me I must rake and cover the latrine.

Gandhi: Everyone takes his turn.

Kasturba Gandhi: It is the work of untouchables!

Gandhi: In this place, no work is beneath us.

Kasturba Gandhi: I am your wife!

Gandhi: [coldly] All the more reason.

Kasturba Gandhi: I say with Gandhiji: There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.