“This is one of those times when you’re not just making a particular decision, but you realize that what you’re doing, what you want to keep doing, is called Politics. I was studying in Germany, and I had already reached a stage where I was able
Birth I have a brother and a sister, both are older than me. I am the youngest and the last child in the family. I have never felt that I was unwanted as a child because of my sex. But I would still often tell my
Education -------------- “You’re a Gurian traded for a dog” they say, but we have been living in Zugdidi for eight generations. I graduated from high school in 2003. Back then university entry exams were still very corrupt. My mother is a teacher and my father is a former
“I have been working as a teacher at school in Merjevi since 2000, which is a 17-year experience. I teach physics and mathematics. In 2014, I was elected a majoritarian deputy in the elections of the local self-government. I was the only woman among 12
„I had an innate sense of protest against prohibitions ever since I can remember but I gave it the name “gender based discrimination” only later, when I became a majoritarian MP candidate. Even as a little girl, I realized that my brother was in a
„I long as I can remember myself, I’ve always been energetic both at school and in the university. My top priority in life has been work; however, my busy life-style never interfered with my private life. In 2004, when I started work as a public
„The worst period of my life was the time I spent in prison. I avoid remembering it as much as I can. I think I have talked about so much that I’ve finally exhausted it, but I still have to relive my horrible experience every
„In our culture, single women are classified into two groups: unmarried and to-be-married. There is zero tolerance to a woman’s free will. On the contrary, if a woman is not married by a certain age, she becomes suspicious in the public eye. I frequently have
"I realized in my early childhood that females represented the ‘inferior sex’. There were two children in the family - my sister and me. We often heard from our father that he was not motivated in life because he did not have a son -