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" There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.' "

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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 all at once, we need to prioritize. "

Michelle Bachelet

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Women

" The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world is moving towards new forms of governance. "

" Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny. "

" When I'm speaking of love, when I'm speaking of reversing hate, I'm speaking not only of reconciliation - even I don't use that word - I use another word in Spanish, that's called 'reencuentro' - it's not reconciliation. "

" 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. "

" It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing. "

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

" We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women. "

Michelle Bachelet

Everyone

Women

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

" Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships. "

Michelle Bachelet

Democracy

Task

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

" Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women. "

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

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

Michelle Bachelet

Always

Because

" You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks. "

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

Michelle Bachelet

Equality

Gender

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service. "

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

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

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

Michelle Bachelet

Stereotypes

Kind

" I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue. "

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

" People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope. "

" 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. "

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

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