Quotes

• • 1.”You can send women to the Moon or Mars later. First, provide sanitary pads to them.”

     

• • 2.”Nobody in the society will talk about menstruation… it’s a taboo in my country. That’s why I’m branded by society as a psycho.”

• • 3.”If you chase a girl, the girl won’t like you. Do your job simply, the girl will chase you.”

• • 4.”I have accumulated no money but I accumulate a lot of happiness. If you get rich, you have an apartment with an extra bedroom – and then you die.”

• • 5.”My vision is to make India into a 100% sanitary-pad-using country. Menstruation is no more a taboo.”

• • 6.”I don’t have any plans to make money for myself. All I wish to do is empower rural women in our country.”

• • 7.”What kept me going was my desire to provide a hygiene product for my wife.”

• • 8.”When I work in the remotest villages, it reminds me of who I am… India is not built on 14 metros and 100 cities. It’s made up of 600,000 villages.”

• • 9.”I am the son of a hand-loom weaver. I have a connection with yarn. I thought, ‘Why not try to make an affordable sanitary pad for my wife?'”

• • 10.”I know that if I had got educated, I might have ended up as a call-center employee.”

• • 11.”My nature is such that even if I failed 9,999 times, I’ll attempt for the 10,000th time again.”

• • 12.”Social entrepreneurship is like a butterfly, sucking honey from a flower, but the flower won’t die. They’re helping the flower to make pollination.”

• • 13.”The strong creation created by God in the world is not the lion, not the elephant, not the tiger – the girl.”

• • 14.”India and other developing nations need non-farm sector activity. So what we are doing, we are giving small microbusiness to the rural women, especially the farmers’ wives.”

• 15.”I didn’t take the money route because I saw my parents struggle for survival.”