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Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

Michelle Bachelet

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Michelle Bachelet
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 29
Epidemiologist
Politician
President Of Chile
Surgeon
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Violence
Life
Reversing
Ravaged
Dedicated
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Hatred

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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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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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As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.
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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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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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We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.
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I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.
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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'm working for the women in the world, today that's my essential issue.
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In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.
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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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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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Chile needs to unite behind the goals of reducing poverty and creating more equal opportunities so that everyone can benefit from what the country has to offer.
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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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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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Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.
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I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.
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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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Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go.
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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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