Michelle Bachelet Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.”

“My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.”

“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.”

“I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.”

“Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.”

“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.”

“My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot.”

“I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.”

“The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles.”

“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.”