The assumption that people sometimes make is that I have made a cold, calculated decision to put my career ahead of having family, and that's not true.
My pledge to you is that the SNP will put women and gender equality right at the heart of the Westminster agenda.
Most politicians come into politics because they want to make a difference; we just have different ideas how to do it.
Scotland's relationship with Malawi is perhaps unique - with almost every town or village in Scotland having some connection.
I'm manifestly not the same as Alex Salmond. I'm a different gender, for example... I'm being flippant, but maybe this is a partly gender-driven difference: I'm very keen that we find a way of reaching out across party divides to find things we agree on, as well as the things we disagree on.
What a war in Iraq will not do is bring about peace in the Middle East or end the injustices that feed resentment and breed terrorists.
I'm not going to do anything that heralds in a Tory government.
I am quite hot-headed; I am quite impulsive. Fortunately, it doesn't last very long.
I am quite driven. I know what I think, and I know what I want to achieve, but I also hope that people who are asked to describe me would describe me as pretty down-to-earth, loyal, friendly. The more experience I have got in politics, I think the more I have allowed me to shine through.
I hope nobody in England is afraid of the SNP - there is absolutely no need to be.
Maybe unlike a lot of people who join the SNP today, I never had any expectation of a political career.
Talent is really important in politics, but experience is also really important.
Not once in my life has the Tory Party come anywhere close to winning an election in Scotland, and yet, for more than half my life, we have had a Tory government. That is wrong and undemocratic.
