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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…
- You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover.
- As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.
- 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.
- Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
- We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that…
- I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic . . . all possible sins together.
- As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere, little girls would come up to me and say, 'I want to…
- There has been a cultural shift. It is difficult to measure all that right now, but Chilean women have seen my presidency as a source…
- There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this…
- Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle