I'm an extrovert - a social being.
You would be naive to suggest that politics isn't complicated or isn't a game, but you don't create change through cynicism.
Being 40 and having three kids puts lots of things in perspective and helps me stay grounded.
As a consumer and a mom, I've always been interested in local products.
I'm a mom. I'm the wife of a Prime Minister. I'm Sophie. So yes, I try to express with integrity who I am through what I'm wearing.
The future kind of gets less intimidating when you're the one shaping it.
Women's empowerment for me means knowing your rights, having the facts, knowing the truth about what is happening out there, here in our own country and the condition of women throughout the world.
The barriers for women across the world are different, depending on which kind of political system you live under.
I feel privileged with what I have… There's so much gratitude.
I'd love to be everywhere but I can't. I have three children and a husband who is prime minister. I need help. I need a team to help me serve the people.
There's no actual title. Except sometimes 'wife of the prime minister,' which, you know, we could be a little more progressive.
I don't make much of comparisons in general, it's not how I think people construct themselves and I don't think it's a healthy way of dealing with your own reality.
My daily life is mostly spent with my three kids and raising them.
Real change comes from real individuals and real experiences.
When human beings distance themselves from their own inner truth and the truth around them, we can't see ourselves in our true light and that is to our detriment.
When youth live in fear of becoming who they are, as adults, they can't become the creative beings that we are meant to be on this planet.
Even if you look at the planet, and you think it's easy to be distraught and depressed, common goodness - human goodness - is very much alive, and it needs to thrive even more amid the chaos.
We tell girls to be themselves, but then they have role models - sometimes too many role models - in popular culture who incarnate that kind of disconnectedness from oneself. We are taught to self-hate; we are taught to doubt. Our culture doesn't help us recognize ourselves as amazing beings without changing ourselves.
In the quest for more equality in a society, when we think that men aren't part of the solution, we're truly wrong… We're all winners when we unite for more equality.
Our boys need to look up to older people around them, especially male figures, to be able to express their full person and potential, but that is only possible if they are raised in a culture that celebrates men and women with the same equal rights, freedoms and respect.
