Michelle Bachelet Quotes

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• My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it…
• I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.
• One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment,…
• I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.
• You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover.
• Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to…
• As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.
• For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.
• Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.
• Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go.
• I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.
• I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.
• I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.
• In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can be accepted by…
• In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.
• In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.
• In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.
• It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.
• My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.
• The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles.

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