The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.

As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.

I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.

There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.

The priority for my government is that there will be development for everyone, equally.

When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.