To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

Also as a result of the pact Gandhi was invited to attend the Round Table Conference in London as the sole representative of the Indian National Congress. The assassin Nathuram Godse was a Hindu nationalist with links to the extremist Hindu Mahasabha who held Gandhi guilty of favouring Pakistan and strongly opposed the doctrine of nonviolence. In 1885 when Gandhi was 15 the couple's first child was born but survived only a few days.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi [About this sound] pronunciation (help·info) (pronounced: [ˈmoːɦənd̪aːs ˈkərəmtʃənd̪ ˈɡaːnd̪ʱi]; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India. Asked to give a message to the people he would respond "My life is my message. He lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl woven with yarn he had hand spun on a charkha.