"Life is a great teacher. One always learns and I'm the sort of person who's always looking to learn and to pick up from the experiences of life. But I believe the most important thing is not to lose the perspective of where one is heading. So despite the hurly-burly of political life, I've never lost focus of the most important goal that a government has and ultimately when all the rhetoric dies down, and when history writes in a detached fashion, I believe that is the place which will get recognition."

~ Benazir Bhutto



"I was taught that ladies try to have good manners...[But] being nice should never be perceived as being weak. It is not a sign of weakness, it is a sign of courtesy, manners, grace, a woman's ability to make everyone in the room feel at home. And it should never be construed as weakness because it's the men who get the biggest shock, when they construe that niceness in a woman as weakness."

~ Benazir Bhutto


Excerpt from the book
Women World Leaders,
© Laura Liswood