We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair. We are persecuted but not forsaken. It’s easy to humiliate and crush people who are open, but when I am weak, then I am strong.

I support equality. Everyone should feel free to live out the parts of their personality that correspond to the classic male or female image.

I believe in fate. And in the depths of my soul, I am an Orthodox Christian. I think the New Testament is especially important. What Jesus and his disciples preached and did was a great thing.

Every woman with a career has to make sacrifices when it comes to her children. It's no different with me, as a political activist, than with businesswomen, of which there are thankfully more and more in Russia. Or a female cabinet minister.

The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia.

I gained an inner peace, the serenity of a prisoner, so to speak.

When I am weak, then I am strong.