Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.

Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.

Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.

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