Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women. – Michelle Bachelet
Educational equality doesnt guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and leaky pipelines that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace. – Michelle Bachelet
I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature. – Michelle Bachelet
People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope. – Michelle Bachelet
It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think. РRen̩ Descartes, Discourse on the Method, 1637 (translated)