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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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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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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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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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By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents, especially women and girls.
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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 believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.
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Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.
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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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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.
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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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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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Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go.
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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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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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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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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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I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic . . . all possible sins together.
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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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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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