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Please, believe in yourself!
I wish my national team all the best.
I like books. I read a lot, to be honest.
Wherever you play, you just want to have fun.
When I was little, I always loved scoring goals.
Every player needs to use their voice to shake up things.
When you get world-class investment, you get world-class results.
Of course I have ambitions, even if I don't play for the national team.
Winning all these trophies and having all this success gives you a voice.
Playing football can be damn harsh, but every day is a fight for equality.
My father and my mother were professional footballers and have also been coaches.
It's impossible to play football in a world among men and not fight for equality.
When you first win a trophy, you want to do it again and again. It keeps you hungry.
I come from a little town of 7,000 people, and everyone in my family played football.
I think when people ask me, 'Who's your favourite player?' it's hard for me to answer.
I had nightmares after being with the national team. You shouldn't have things like that.
I never considered myself less worthy than a man in football. Never. Never, never, never.
I think more about preparation than numbers. If I'm well prepared, there will be results.
My sister plays for PSG. My brother played, too, but not professionally. So I had no choice!
You can only have a short sight because things change a lot. You can't plan what the years will bring.
That's what defines the best athletes: being capable of showing up year after year at the highest level.
People wonder what you are going to do after you've won the Champions League three times? Win it again, if I can.
What I think is important for us as players is to always stay on our toes and be critical to everything being said.
I remember, when I was young, I had idols who inspired me to go for my dreams, and I just want to give the same back.
I expect if people have had a problem with me or my attitude, then they come and take it directly with me, face to face.
If each woman stands up and uses her voice, imagine how many voices would be together and how strong a mass that would be.
I just think you need to believe in yourself - be offensive, but still have some nervousness in your body before any important game.
Football is the biggest sport in Norway for girls and has been for years, but at the same time, girls don't have the same opportunities as the boys.
Norway has a great history of women's football, but it's harder now. We've stopped talking about development, and other countries have overtaken us.
I could speak for hours about equality and what needs to change in football and in society as a whole. But in the end, everything comes back to respect.
That's the great thing with Lyon: we are such a competitive group of players, but we know each other so well, so what happens on the pitch stays on the pitch.
I never saw myself as a women's footballer. Not when I was in my tiny village in Norway. Not when I was suffering in Germany. Not when I finally made it to Lyon.
Football is my biggest passion in life, and I've worked really hard to get here. It's so important to me, so I can't sit and watch things not go in the right direction.
I think Together #WePlayStrong is a big step for football. This project is about building interest and professionalism and making younger women want to play football at a high level.
We work just as hard as any footballer, period. We go through the same experiences and heartaches. We make the same sacrifices. We leave our families behind to chase our dreams, too.
On the pitch, I can be really fearless. It's all about performing, and I forget about everything else. When I step off, in real life, I can be a different person. I can feel vulnerable sometimes.
It's great that we all talk about investment, but there needs to be action behind it as well. If we don't push for the change for women's football to go in the right direction, then it won't come by itself.
I know what I want and know my values, and therefore, it's easy to take hard choices when you know what the ambitions are and what values you stand for, so it's all about staying true to yourself, be yourself.
I don't think too much about how many goals I'm going to target. I work really hard and prepare really well for the season to come... I know when I'm well prepared, when I've worked hard, the results will come.
When I was 15, and I just stepped on the A-team, I believed in myself, but I wasn't cocky in any way. I just wanted something so badly that I could tell people around me that were ten years older that they had to play and perform. I would still say that I had respect.