Chile Quotes - Page 4

• My husband, Nick Chiles and I wrote a number of relationship books together, and what we found was that women were thirsty to hear directly from men.

  Denene Millner

  Husband, Book, Men

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• Now if I don't meet you no more in this world, then I'll, I'll meet you in the next one, and don't be late, don't be late, cause I'm a voodoo chile.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Religious, Religion, World

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• There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Military, Enough, Combat

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• There has been a cultural shift. It is difficult to measure all that right now, but Chilean women have seen my presidency as a source of pride. Women are performing in jobs in Chile now that 20 or 30 years ago nobody would have dared to imagine.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Jobs, Pride, Years

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• 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.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Mother, Running, Children

  "'All I want in life is to walk along the beach, holding my lover's hand'". Interview with Jonathan Franklin, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2005.

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• It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Country, Facts, Vote

  "Michelle, top woman in a macho world" by Diane Dixon, www.theguardian.com. April 02, 2006.

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• The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.

  Charles Darwin

  Vegetarianism, World, Vegan

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• It (the Chinese move to embrace capitalism in 1989) is a mirror of the corporatist state first pioneered in Chile under Pinochet: a revolving door between corporate and political elites who combine their power to eliminate workers as an organized political force. The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.

  Naomi Klein

  Moving, Mirrors, Doors

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• I have experience and I am employing it in the service of a Chilean road for Chile's problems. We always take advantage of experience wherever it comes from, but adapting it to our reality. I am putting it to use in a Chilean way, for the problems of Chile. We are not anyone's mental colonists.

  Salvador Allende

  Reality, Use, Way

  Interview with Saul Landau, 1971.

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• Chile needs to unite behind the goals of reducing poverty and creating more equal opportunities so that everyone can benefit from what the country has to offer.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Country, Opportunity, Creating

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