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" My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation. "

Michelle Bachelet

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" My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot. "

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" As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens. "

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" Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. It's good for the bottom line. "

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" In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate. "

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" 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 go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice. "

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" The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards. "

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" 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 everyone. "

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" In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone. "

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" 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. "

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" I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature. "

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" As women politicians, we talk about the most difficult themes of state security, foreign relations and development models, then ask, 'How do you make it work with your husband?' The interesting thing is that these women - most of them - don't lose the perspective that the focus is not the position but the job at hand. "

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" I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy. "

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" The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies. "

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" I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality. "

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" Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred. "

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" The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was doing work on the ground. I think the important thing is that my candidacy was born from citizens themselves, driven by the people and which the parties picked up favorably. "

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" 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 of pride. Women are performing in jobs in Chile now that 20 or 30 years ago nobody would have dared to imagine. "

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" Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace. "

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" During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change women's lives, we need to deal with those root causes. "

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