Benazir Bhutto managed to juggle a husband and children with her leadership role. She found this difficult to balance.

 "When I was growing up I thought a woman could have it all and now I find that yes a woman can have it all but she has to be prepared to pay the price. And the price means a lot of guilt about not being there for your children when they need you, a lot of tension also with your husband on work schedules. So you find you can have a husband, you can have a family, you can have a career but at the end of the time you have very little time left for yourself. That's a choice I made and it brought me a lot of satisfaction but for those who want to start out, I would say there is a price that has to be paid"

She experienced particular problems during her pregnancies when, she felt, her opponents believed that she would be particularly vulnerable

"I was brought up to believe that a woman can do anything that a man can. But there are certain things that only women can do such as carry a child and I found myself in very strange position because each time I was pregnant my political opponents somehow thought I would be paralysed and would plot particularly against me at those points. Another time my political opponents had me teargassed at a time I was carrying my youngest child. It was a pretty harrowing experience. I found that the old-fashioned notion that a woman who's expecting a child has to be bedridden was absolutely wrong, a woman can do anything if she's lucky enough not to have morning sickness."