The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse.

America is not the only one who should decide about the policies toward Iran.

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.

The people are fed up with corruption and embezzlement. They object to censorship. The first thing that the people of Iran want is free elections.

Over 60 percent of the university students in Iran are female. The women in Iran are better educated than men.

The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.

In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor the lowest. I'm a woman who is a lawyer, who is a professor at a university, who won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, I cook. And even when I'm about to go to prison, one of the first things I do is to make enough food and put it in the fridge for my family.