The priority for my government is that there will be development for everyone, equally.

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.

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.

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.

We truly believed in something back then, and we knew we were the kind of people capable of believing in something - with all our hearts. And that kind of hope will never simply vanish.

People won't respect you until you achieve the respectable goals.

Innocence could be lost more than once after all.

We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.

I would not leave you. I'll be there. Wherever you want 'there' to be.

History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.

Boredom makes you do crazy things

They are a special breed-like normal accountants, but without the soppy sentimentality. These are the oncologists of market capitalism.