Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.

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.

I love the storm and fear the calm.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

The wise know their days are numbered and act accordingly.

Life is beautiful, but it is also so damn ugly.

Inflation is defined as the quality that makes balloons larger and candy bars smaller.

We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.

I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened when we were growing up.

The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.

Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.

We talked to the referees before the game; there's always new situations to adjust, for the refs and for us as well. Even on the ice, it's good for players to talk and interact with the referee.