We must protect families, we must protect children, who have inalienable rights and should be loved, should be taken care of physically and mentally, and should not be brought into the world only to suffer.

Ability is not always gauged by examination.

In India people can't stomach this attitude of mine, and when I say, 'Hurry up, let's get to the point,' they feel hurt.

I always wanted to have children - if it had been up to me, I would have had eleven. It was my husband who wanted only two.

It would seem that it was not in the interest of 'someone' for us to make progress. It was in 'someone's' interest that we be always at war, that we tear each other to pieces. Yes, I'm inclined to absolve the Pakistanis. How should they have behaved? Someone encouraged them to attack us, someone gave them weapons to attack us. And they attacked us.

Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.

It depends on what you mean by the word religion. Certainly I don't go to temples and pray to the gods or anything like that.