Success comes from happiness, because you attract positive energy when you give away positive energy.

My mother – a single mum with three children – was almost too kind to other people, so nobody really got to understand her. Unless you have vanity, it’s very challenging for a woman to love herself.

Men don’t discuss their problems. That’s what keeps them manly and perfect.

Hard work is my etiquette in life. I will never just sit around and do nothing.

Working on a fruit stall in Russia taught me how to experience physical pain. It’s nothing compared with emotional pain, because it’s controllable. I found childbirth a beautiful, natural pain; it’s part of a woman’s personal evolution.
