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.

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

Chile has changed. The people have become more mature and they are more conscious of their rights. They want to participate and have a say about things such as if and where a power plant can be built.

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.

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.

In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.

We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.