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.
Christine LagardeYou know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.
Christine LagardeWe cannot just look at a country by looking at charts, graphs, and modelling the economy. Behind the numbers there are people.
Christine LagardeI think I have a male side about me and you have a female side about you. It's a question of repressing or not.
Christine Lagarde