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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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Michelle Bachelet
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 29
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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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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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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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I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic . . . all possible sins together.
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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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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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Because I'm a doctor, I know when you have an injury it will heal if it's clean enough to heal if your injury is dirty, it won't heal. And so when you are talking in societies, we are also talking in healing processes, and for a good healing process, you need to make things right.
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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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Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go.
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I'm working for the women in the world, today that's my essential issue.
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I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.
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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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I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.
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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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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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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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Today it is time to give the government a new lease of life and this new phase which is as demanding as it is inspiring requires renovated energy and new faces.
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