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

Michelle Bachelet

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Michelle Bachelet
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 29
Epidemiologist
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President Of Chile
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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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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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In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.
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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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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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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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My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.
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I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.
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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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I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.
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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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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 favourably.
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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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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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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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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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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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I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.
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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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