Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans.

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

I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.

I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.

I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.

In any area of the UN we ... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can be accepted by everyone.

There does not have to be trade-off between growth and social protection. A democracy does not mean much if it doesn't respond to the needs and will of its people.