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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. - Michelle Bachelet

Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice. - Michelle Bachelet

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. - Michelle Bachelet

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. - Michelle Bachelet

I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service. - Michelle Bachelet

#Public Service

It isn't that women are less ambitious, but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family. - Michelle Bachelet

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. - Michelle Bachelet

You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover. - Michelle Bachelet

You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks. - Michelle Bachelet

#Responsibility

As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens. - Michelle Bachelet

I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes. - Michelle Bachelet

During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change women's lives, we need to deal with those root causes. - Michelle Bachelet

#Discrimination

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. - Michelle Bachelet

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. - Michelle Bachelet

We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever. - Michelle Bachelet

There has been a cultural shift. It is difficult to measure all that right now, but Chilean women have seen my presidency as a source of pride. Women are performing in jobs in Chile now that 20 or 30 years ago nobody would have dared to imagine. - Michelle Bachelet

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. - Michelle Bachelet

In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone. - Michelle Bachelet

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates. - Michelle Bachelet

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards. - Michelle Bachelet

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. - Michelle Bachelet

As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt. - Michelle Bachelet

I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature. - Michelle Bachelet

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. - Michelle Bachelet

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women. - Michelle Bachelet

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