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

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.

I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic . . . all possible sins together.

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

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

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

The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.