There is an English saying, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." Women often become these tough ones.
Dalia GrybauskaiteTraditionally, women have a lot of different roles in society. It is very difficult to balance all these roles and at the same time to compete with men. A leading, successful woman has to put in much bigger efforts to be more competent and faster, more dynamic and organized, than a successful man.
Dalia GrybauskaiteIt 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.
Dalia GrybauskaitePeople trust those leaders who show real results of their work, rather than those who just talk about the results.
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