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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic . . . all possible sins together.

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

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

Loneliness is a state when you have not yet grown to love yourself enough.

There is no greater heaven the heart of a loving mother

The property of power is to protect.

Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell.

I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.

People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.

The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.

I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about.

Cruelties should be committed all at once.

Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us.