Because I'm a doctor, I know when you have an injury it will heal if it's clean enough to heal; if your injury is dirty, it won't heal. And so when you are talking in societies, we are also talking in healing processes, and for a good healing process, you need to make things right.

You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover.

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.

As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.

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

Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice.