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

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.

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.

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

Good. That is it. You will see with your hands, I promise you.

Once you take the cat out of the bag, you can't cram it back in.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

Our job if I can see straight and hear clearly and understand ~ is to make advertising and run advertising that is seen and read and heard ~ and remembered ~ for its reasonable and compelling truth.

Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.

I don't know how to say easily what I learned. One thing I can say I learned is how amazing photography could be.

Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope.

The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.

You bring the color and the life. It's a lucky man who is offered that color and life, and a wise one who values it.

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be