The way I see it, God gave me the body, so I intend to use it. It's a big ego trip.... You know, you look around a bar, you pick o...ut a guy and you say, that's the one: I'm going to take all of his money tonight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had reconciled myself to a life without marriage or children for the sake of my career. And then my brothers got married. I real...ized I didn't even have a home, that in the future I couldn't do politics when I had to ask permission from their wives as to whether I could use the dining room or the telephone. I couldn't rent a home because a woman living on her own can be suspected of all kinds of scandalous associations. So keeping in mind that many people in Pakistan looked to me, I decided to make a personal sacrifice in what I thought would be, more or less, a loveless marriage, a marriage of convenience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal a...bortions and unwanted children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What we have to do ... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For all the injustices in our past and our present, we have to believe that in the free exchange of ideas, justice will prevail ov...er injustice, tolerance over intolerance and progress over reaction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew its theology and its varieties of religious experience. We ...are post-secular, inventing new faiths, without any sense of organizing truths. The truths we accept are so multiple that honesty becomes little more than a strategy by which you manage your tendencies toward duplicity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »