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" You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks. "
Michelle Bachelet
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" 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, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits. "
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" 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. "
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" In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate. "
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" We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I wouldn't be honest if I told you that in some moment of my life I had a lot of rage - probably hate - I'm not sure of hate, but rage. But you know what happens is that then you realize you cannot do to others what you think nobody has to do to anybody. Life is important for me and not any kind of life, quality too of life. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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Love
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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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" 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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Focus
Work
Perspective
" 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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Enough
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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. "
Michelle Bachelet
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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. "
Michelle Bachelet
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" We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever. "
Michelle Bachelet
Women
Wisdom
Peace
" 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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Good
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" 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 nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans. "
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My Life
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" I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue. "
Michelle Bachelet
Women
World
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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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Women
Education
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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
Learn
Need
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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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Work
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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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Home
Born
Dreams
" The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles. "
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Principles
Proactive
United Nations
" 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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" 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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Everyone
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Language
" I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature. "
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Nature
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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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" Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women. "
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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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