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.

We shouldn't just consider the desire of government to do what it wants to do. We should always consider the resistance of people. The culture of Iranian people doesn't let the government drag people into deep trouble or backlash. Maybe government wants it, but the culture doesn't let it go on.

I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.

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.

If you study the behavior or the attitude of Syria, Iran, and U.S., you understand that these three countries can't come to terms with each other.

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran.