"I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim…"

"My greatest fear is that I will not be able to complete my mission."

"I am a symbol of struggle against dictatorship. I am a symbol of democracy."

"In my view, dictatorship fuels extremism. The extremists feed off dictatorship, and dictatorship feeds off the extremists. The dictatorship needs the extremists to justify its existence, and the extre…"

"We are fighting for the soul of Pakistan."