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. – Michelle Bachelet
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. Its not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates. – Michelle Bachelet
Theres full consensus in the military that women shouldnt be in person-to-person combat. I dont know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas. – Michelle Bachelet
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. – Michelle Bachelet