Michelle Bachelet Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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“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

#Recovery #Issues #Population
“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.”
-- Michelle Bachelet

#Senior #Smart #Lines
“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

#Roots #Causes #Needs
“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.”
-- Michelle Bachelet

#Hate #Use #Reconciliation
“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

#Girl #Dream #Doctors
“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

#Girl #Men #Voice
“Gender equality must become a lived reality”
-- Michelle Bachelet

#Reality #Gender #Gender Equality
“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

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

#Ambitious #Balance #Want
“My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.”
-- Michelle Bachelet

#Priorities #Political #Empowerment
“The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles.”
-- Michelle Bachelet

#Agents #Principles #Proactive
“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

#Rights #Culture #Violence
“Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.”
-- Michelle Bachelet

#Hatred #Violence #Victim
“We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.”
-- Michelle Bachelet

#Issues #Government #Agendas
“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

#Country #Hands #Justice
“We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.”
-- Michelle Bachelet

#Tasks #Investment
“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

#Challenges #World #Today
“In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.”
-- Michelle Bachelet

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

#Dream #Beach #Simple
“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

#Country #Empowerment #Employment
“I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.”
-- Michelle Bachelet

#Struggle #Calling #Public Service
“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.”
-- Michelle Bachelet

#Messages #Needs #Prioritize
“As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.”
-- Michelle Bachelet

#Together #Agnostic #Sin
“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

#Empowering #Democracy #Vote
“Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.”
-- Michelle Bachelet

#Empowering #Able #Gender Equality
“I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.”
-- Michelle Bachelet

#Exercise #Losing #Feminine
“Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go.”
-- Michelle Bachelet

#Giving #Possibility #States
“I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.”
-- Michelle Bachelet

#Believe #Fighting #Want
“I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.”
-- Michelle Bachelet

#Kind #Stereotype
“In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.”
-- Michelle Bachelet

#Exercise #Winning #Artillery

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