When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.

If you have an overwhelming majority of one sex over the other, and clearly in our case at the moment - and it has been like this for a long time - it is male over female, you tend to have group thinking. You tend to have common references, combined with competition, combined in this case with testosterone. I'm not suggesting it's a toxic mix, but I'm saying it needs to be tempered and altered and modified and made better by diversity.

Women, as the minority, have to prove their worth all the time. That's the reason we tend to over-prepare, over-study, over-anticipate. I think it's the case with many women leaders. We tend to over do it.

I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.

The difficulty that negotiators have is often based on the cultural difference that various countries have.

The Egyptian society needs to include its women if it wants to have economic prosperity.

Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis.