92 Quotes by Michelle Bachelet

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.

You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover.

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.

As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.

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

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.

I am a woman, a socialist, separated and agnostic - all the sins together.