I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.
Women's strength women's industry women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.
The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having...
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not...
As a vibrant force in civil society women continue to press for their rights...
I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.
People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile one-third...
Given political history in Chile it seemed to me that there was a critical...
As a doctor when I was minister of health and would go somewhere little...
We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the...
There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of...
My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always...
I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to...
I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in...
The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear...
The strength of a nation especially of a republican nation is in the...
I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly...
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the...
I am not yet born O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my...
Well you know I'm very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do....