I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field.

I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.

Of course, trade agreements can be beneficial, but of course they need to avoid infringing on certain areas and respect diversity.

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

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.

I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.