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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.

Michelle Bachelet

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Michelle Bachelet
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 29
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One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits.
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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 believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.
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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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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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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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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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As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.
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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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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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Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.
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In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.
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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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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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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.
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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'm working for the women in the world, today that's my essential issue.
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I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic . . . all possible sins together.
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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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