The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world is moving towards new forms of governance.

Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go.

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.

In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.

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

People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.

You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.