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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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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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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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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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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 ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.
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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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I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.
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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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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 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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I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic . . . all possible sins together.
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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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My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.
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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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In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.
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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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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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I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.
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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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As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.
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