59 Quotes by Arunachalam Muruganantham

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

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

A lot of people making a lot of money, billion, billions of dollars accumulating. Why are they coming for, finally, for philanthropy? Why the need for accumulating money, then doing philanthropy? What if one decided to start philanthropy from the day one?

To help my mother, I started working as a workshop helper. There I learned welding and other tools.

We keep discussing nuclear power and other issues, but we should spare a thought to the basic needs of our women.

There should be awareness on menstrual hygiene among men as well.

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.

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

Wherever I went and spoke about menstrual hygiene, I was beaten up by people. I used to cover my cheeks with both my hands whenever I went to speak on the subject, so how could I ever imagine that someone would make a film on such a topic?