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" The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles. "

Michelle Bachelet

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" When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins. "

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" I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes. "

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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'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 is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas. "

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" Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go. "

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

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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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" 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 be like you one day, I want to be a doctor.' Now, they tell me, 'I want to be president just like you.' All of us can dream as big as we want. "

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" We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments. "

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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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" Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates. "

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

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" By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents, especially women and girls. "

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" 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 resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all. "

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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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" It isn't that women are less ambitious, but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family. "

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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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" As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt. "

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" As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work. "

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" You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover. "

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" In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women. "

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

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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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" As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic. "

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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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