All VANDANA SHIVA Quotes about “Mothers”

“I have a deep connection with Mahatma Gandhi, partly because my mother was a very, very staunch Gandhian and brought us up that way. When I was six years old, and all the girls were getting nylon dresses, I was very keen to get a nylon frock for my birthday. My mother said, Â“I can get it for you, but would you ratherÂ—through how you live and what you wear and what you eatÂ—ensure that food goes into the hands of the weaver or ensure that profits go into the bank of an industrialist?Â” That became such a checkstone for everything in life.”
“The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.”
“My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written during the war years, in the 1940s. She was studying in Lahore, which became Pakistan. She was writing about how women alone could bring peace to the world, that the men with all their greed and egos were creating all these tensions and violence. I always knew she was a feminist, ahead of her time.”
“My mother taught that if anyone needs you, you should be available to them.”

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