Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's first female president, is the country's first woman to lead a major country. She was re-elected to a second term in 2014. She was born into a middle-class family in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She spent her early childhood in Porto Alegre, where her father was the regional director of the National Bank of Brazil
Her family moved to Brasilia when she was 10 years old to take up an appointment as Minister of Education by President Juscelino Kubitschek, who served as president from 1956 to 1961.
I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'Dilma Rousseff
I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country.Dilma Rousseff
I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.Dilma Rousseff
