She was the daughter of Juho Kusti Paasikivi (the seventh president of Finland) and his wife Anna Matilda Forsman.
[1] A scholarship fund at Aalto University is named for her.
[2] For a time she did a "woman's hour" on Finnish radio.
Her two brothers died in World War II from injuries they had received.
[3] Bengali writer Syed Mujtaba Ali mentions a chapter about her in his book Panchatantra that she knew many languages and was eloquent.