Michelle Bachelet Quotes

• Ya no podemos permitirnos negar todo el potencial de una mitad de la población. El mundo necesita aprovechar el talento y la sabiduría de las mujeres. Ya se trate de la seguridad alimentaria, la recuperación económica, la salud o la paz y la seguridad, la participación de las mujeres es ahora más necesaria que nunca.

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  Wisdom, Women, Recovery

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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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  Empowering, Democracy, Vote

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• A medida que más y más mujeres, hombres y jóvenes alzan su voz y participan activamente en el gobierno local, y más líderes locales actúan en favor de la seguridad de las mujeres y las niñas, se produce el cambio.

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  Girl, Men, Voice

  "Making cities safe for women and girls" by Michelle Bachelet, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2013.

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

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  Empowering, Able, Gender Equality

  "UN Women's head Michelle Bachelet: A new superhero?". Interview with Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2011.

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

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  Beautiful, Responsibility, Epic

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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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  Hatred, Violence, Victim

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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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  Country, Empowerment, Employment

  "UN Women Head Michelle Bachelet: ‘Gender Equality Is Good Business’". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

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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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  Believe, Fighting, Want

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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.

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  Needs, Messages, Prioritize

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• Se decía que Chile no estaba preparado para votar a una mujer, que era un país tradicionalmente machista. Al final ocurrió lo contrario: el hecho de ser mujer se convirtió en un símbolo del proceso de cambio cultural que vivía el país.

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  Country, Facts, Vote

  "Michelle, top woman in a macho world" by Diane Dixon, www.theguardian.com. April 02, 2006.

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

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  Struggle, Calling, Social

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• There does not have to be trade-off between growth and social protection. A democracy does not mean much if it doesn't respond to the needs and will of its people.

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  Mean, People, Growth

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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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  Rights, Matter, Standards

  The David A. Morse Lecture, www.cfr.org. September 25, 2008.

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• Gender equality must become a lived reality.

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  Reality, Gender Equality, Gender

  "Who Is the Authentic Arab Woman?" by Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2012.

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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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  Challenges, Benefits, Way

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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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  Challenges, World, Today

  "A Conversation With Michelle Bachelet". www.cfr.org. September 25, 2008.

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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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  Girl, Dream, Doctors

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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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  Together, Agnostic, Sin

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• I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic . . . all possible sins together.

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  Together, Agnostic, Sin

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• La violencia contra las mujeres en todas sus formas es una violación de los derechos humanos. No es algo que propague ninguna cultura, religión o tradición.

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  Rights, Culture Religion, Violence

  "UN Women Head Michelle Bachelet: ‘Gender Equality Is Good Business’". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

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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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  Military, Creating, Political

  "Michelle, top woman in a macho world" by Diane Dixon, www.theguardian.com. April 02, 2006.

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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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  Encouraging, Mother, Strong

  "Interview with Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN Women". Interview, www.un.org. December 3, 2012.

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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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  Country, Rights, Restriction

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• Como soy médico, sé que cuando tienes una herida, se cura si está lo suficientemente limpia como para curarse; si la herida está sucia, no se cura. Así que cuando hablamos de sociedades, también hablamos de procesos de curación, y para un buen proceso de curación, hay que hacer las cosas bien.

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  Dirty, Healing, Doctors

  "Chile’s New President Outlines Goals". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. January 25, 2006.

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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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  Hate, Use, Reconciliation

  "Chile’s New President Outlines Goals". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. January 25, 2006.

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