Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go.

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.

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.

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.

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

When something important is going on, silence is a lie.

Control what I hold and of course be the boss of myself, no-one else will bring my wealth.

Of course not,” said Hermione. “Everything we need is here on this paper.

I always did like a man in uniform. And that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me?

Flow into your dancing, circulate the steps into your body, as you would run your fingers through the hair of the one you Love.

As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.

Because the oils work in a different way from antibiotics, they do not have the usual side effects, and they tend to stimulate the immune system instead of depressing it.

I knew out of high school I didn't want to go to college. I knew what whatever I did wouldn't have anything to do with college.