Marriage
Born on 1 August 1899 and brought up in a traditional Kashmiri Brahmin middle class family of old Delhi, she wedded Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru at the age of 17. All her schooling had been at home, under the guidance of a Pandit and a Maulvi. She gave birth to a girl child named Indira Priyadarshini in 1917.
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Famous quotes containing the word marriage:
“Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
“A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.”
—Victoria (1819–1901)
“In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don’t know, but they do.”
—Patricia Neal (b. 1926)