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.

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.

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

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.

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.

And like a good neighbor, Alpha Centauri is there.”Touched by an Alien

Diet food is for lazy people.

Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.

I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

I'm proud of people who have the determination and the fearlessness to actually go and face their demons and get better.

What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.

Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference.

Don't imitate, don't follow the others, or else you will lag behind them.

I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one.

Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.