"It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing."

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Source : "Michelle, top woman in a macho world" by Diane Dixon, www.theguardian.com. April 02, 2006.

Michelle Bachelet

#Country Quotes #Facts Quotes #Vote Quotes

“I really just drew off of where we are now, with reality TV. You can't help but see a lot of it. You choose to watch some, but with some, you just can't help but hear it and see it. It's just piercing in your brain. That piercing is what I was tapping into , with whatever they were doing to pierce into the minds of everybody. It takes a certain kind of person to shut your mind off to the consequences and just try to get results. That's what I was going for - results.”
“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. Dream is also just a word until you decide to fight for it with all your enthusiasm and commitment”
“For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.”
“Imagine the world we would live in if we dared to see all of life as sacred - unconditionally.”

Source : Stephanie Dowrick (2011). “Seeking the Sacred: Transforming Our View of Ourselves and One Another”, p.395, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Snoop Doggy Dogg paged, that must mean more hoes.”
“All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought...it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society. Religion is the private affair of an individual...be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion. When I'm speaking, I'm speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.”
“Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.”

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