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 to be a doctor.' Now, they tell me, 'I want to be president just like you.' All of us can dream as big as we want. Michelle Bachelet
He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.
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Marie Lu
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
A thirst for water may be an oasis in your day.
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Anthony T.Hincks
Your smile is what gets me through the day and my dreams of you are what gets me through the night.
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Anthony T. Hincks
It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
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Jodi Picoult
More Quotes By Michelle Bachelet
The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.
Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.
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 employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits.
The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.
Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.
