The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.
There are many examples of female leaders who are not afraid to take responsibility and openly face the challenges in the worst situations.
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.
The world has become more diversified, with women becoming a real power of change.
There is an English saying, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going. " Women often become these tough ones.
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.
My advice and wish to every woman in my country and in the world is very simple: Do not be afraid to be yourself, to have your dream, your vision, and to go for it. We can achieve a lot if we are sincerely committed to our goals and work hard to realize them.
When I'm in a state of goodness about the world, no matter what is happening, I see that goodness. But if I'm in an irritable, angry, separate state, I've shut down.
It is a curious fact that with Through the Looking-Glass the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me. . . . I have done nothing in that direction since.
I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love.
The time has come for the Church to take up the joyful call to mercy once more. It is time to return to the basics and to bear the weaknesses and struggles of our brothers and sisters. Mercy is the force that reawakens us to new life and instils in us the courage to look to the future with hope.