The examples of female success stories are important on the global scale, as they help to disseminate the idea of gender equality and to spread the roots for the actual implementation of equal rights for women and men and democratic values among different cultures, societies and traditions.

It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go abroad to study, in sturdy defiance of the male elders of the family, who protested and decided that I should be married off instead.

The world has become more diversified, with women becoming a real power of change.

With the danger of terrorism and war spreading in the world, now is the right moment to stop and reconsider our actions and do everything possible to bring an end to the fighting, be it in your own homeland, neighboring countries, or in your region.

Women have more inner power for creation, starting from family and home and ending with professional activity and politics.

I don't subscribe to that school of thought that leadership can be altogether defined by gender.

If women decide that their mission, their political career, balances out what they have to give up, they can be and are equally successful as men.