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

Unfortunately even in India there are people who talk like that. And they're the same ones who say, 'We should never have accepted the existence of Pakistan. Now that it exists, it ought to be destroyed.' But these are only a few madmen who have no following among the masses.

My sons...I was crazy about my sons and I think I've done a super job in bringing them up.

You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.

Ability is not always gauged by examination.

By now even the word socialism has so many meanings and interpretations. The Russians call themselves socialists, the Swedes call themselves. And let's not forget that in Germany there was also a national socialism.

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