Politician

Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.

As long as there is no proselytism... we must facilitate the partnership between parents and schools.

You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.

If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.

I'm aware that beyond my own need to find a personal balance, I should be sending a signal to society as women's minister about the importance of work-life balance.

Compared to some of our neighbours, it's not frowned upon to be a mother and work in France.

Low income persons in need of social housing should be housed in more prosperous areas to avoid placing an extra burden on the poorer areas and to redress the balance in terms of housing, redressing the balance in terms of schooling.

My dream of society is a society where women are free and proud of their bodies.

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.

It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also.

I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.

I feel totally French - I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.

We have to be careful not to have a form of militant secularism in our country, which is counter-productive for children we would like to see - adhere - to secularism.

Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.

I molded myself against le Front National. Against hate speech, be it racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic. Against the kind of injustice I faced during my own life.

The education ministry files suit every time there is a case of identity fraud.

It was the students who entered kindergarten in 2011 who are - and I am weighing my words carefully - the sacrificed generation. It is they who have paid a high price for the politics of yesterday - that is to say, the government of Mr. Fillon.

I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.

Inequality of women concerns both India and France, though it might have different manifestations in both the countries.