Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart.

- Raisa Gorbacheva

Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.

- Raisa Gorbacheva

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life.

- Raisa Gorbacheva

A sociologist without an archive is like a person without a memory.

- Raisa Gorbacheva

The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity.

- Raisa Gorbacheva

The maltreatment of the natural world and its impoverishment leads to the impoverishment of the human soul. It is related to the outburst of violence…

- Raisa Gorbacheva

Nationalism and extremism ... are spreading today like a cancerous growth in the fabric of people's national self-awareness.

- Raisa Gorbacheva

In our family we have always had, and still have, this understanding: the problem of each member of the family is everybody's problem.

- Raisa Gorbacheva