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You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.
Michelle Bachelet
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Michelle Bachelet
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 29
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President Of Chile
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VerĂ³nica Michelle Bachelet Jeria
Veronica Michelle Bachelet Jeria
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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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I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.
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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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Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.
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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 challenge is for us to reinvigorate the relationship with the Chilean people and to give state institutions new legitimacy. But this is also a universal phenomenon. There's also disenchantment with politics in Europe.
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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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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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My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans.
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