I can't take it seriously when people get excited and scream that religion is in danger, and similar stupidities.

I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them.

As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.

No one ever indoctrinated me.

When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react.

It is legitimate to have one's own point of view and political philosophy. But there are people who make anger, rather than a deeply held belief, the basis of their actions. They do not seem to mind harming society as a whole in the pursuit of their immediate objective. No society can survive if it yields to the demands of frenzy, whether of the few or the many.

To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice - I savored every minute of those years.