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" 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. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Society
Need
Balance
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" School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences. "
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School
Place
Once
" 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. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Feel
Roots
Me
" 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. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Balance
Burden
Housing
" I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Like
Who
Children
" In Europe, we will work towards having a common stance, while in France, we will strengthen our protection for asylum seekers whose lives are in danger because of their sexual orientation. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Danger
Work
Will
" It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Superior
Gender
Important
" When I started out, it was rare to see elected representatives with foreign roots. Often, I was relegated to my origins, put in the diversity box: 'You're the new face of diversity.' That annoyed me because I always felt French, and suddenly I was being made to feel I wan't as French as others. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Roots
Feel
Me
" Equality in education is my number one battle. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Battle
Education
Equality
" We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Sex
Equality
Feminism
" It's more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
World
Mind
Media
" I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Education
Opportunities
Children
" By continuing to increase teacher recruitment and training - and ameliorating wages and working conditions - we will be able to shore up the weaknesses of the French education system. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Training
Education
Shore
" I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Very
Bit
Politics
" Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Sex
Change
Equality
" There is no link between the terror attacks of Daesh and the dress of a woman on the beach. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Link
Woman
Beach
" As long as there is no proselytism... we must facilitate the partnership between parents and schools. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Must
Partnership
Parents
" Compared to some of our neighbours, it's not frowned upon to be a mother and work in France. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Work
France
Neighbours
" Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Aggression
Act
Students
" Inequality of women concerns both India and France, though it might have different manifestations in both the countries. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
India
Different
Inequality
" You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Question
Much
People
" We have several million Muslims in France who are mostly moderates or non-practicing. If they feel that it is the only subject in public debate, they won't feel at home and will be tempted to withdraw to their communities. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Debate
Feel
France
" Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing? "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Going
Clothing
Students
" On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Because
Values
Talk
" The education ministry files suit every time there is a case of identity fraud. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Education
Fraud
Time
" How can a child adhere to school and the notion of secularism when they see their mother rejected from a school outing, stigmatized, left on the sidelines, just because she has a scarf on her head? "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
She
Child
Just Because
" The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Fuels
Community
Stereotypes
" If you're asking me in a general context whether I'm for or against the burkini, the response is simple: I oppose the burkini. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Against
Context
Me
" We know that if religion is allowed into schools, pupils will sometimes begin to question the teaching they receive. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Know
Sometimes
Religion
" 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. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Politics
Words
Say
" It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Values
Also
Family