Look at the European Parliament. There are a lot of people who are looking for simplistic solutions, for - who are sort of preaching policies of - well, very unfriendly policies.

I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman.

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are.

Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory.

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

I am thankful for all the hard times I've been through and all the tears I've cried because that has put me as closer to God and made me the strong woman I am today!

Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.

Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.

I am not here for women only, but also for women.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

If you talk to God you are praying if God talks to you you have schizophrenia.

The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.

Round, cat-eye frames, wayfarers, and aviators are my go-tos.

When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.

I don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. You know, everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

It's not like there are a lot of horror shows on television. There are a few.

The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.