It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being ….

I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy..

My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity.….

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

When I'm speaking of love, when I'm speaking of reversing hate, I'm speaking not only of reconciliation - even I don't use that word - I use another ….

I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic . . . all possible sins together..

I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service..

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates..

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 prior….

We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. ….

Gender equality must become a lived reality..

Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diver….

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 t….

Because I'm a doctor, I know when you have an injury it will heal if it's clean enough to heal; if your injury is dirty, it won't heal. And so when y….

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

You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks..

One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and empl….

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

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women..

In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women..

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….