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Top 25 Michelle Bachelet Quotes (2025 Update)

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “Gender equality must become a lived reality.”

1. “Gender equality must become a lived reality.”

— Michelle Bachelet

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Michelle Bachelet Quote: “As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens.”

2. “As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens.”

— Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “Educational equality doesn’t guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and ‘leaky pipelines’ that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.”

3. “Educational equality doesn’t guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and ‘leaky pipelines’ that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.”

— Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “In artillery exercises, women always win because they’re more accurate.”

4. “In artillery exercises, women always win because they’re more accurate.”

— Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents, especially women and girls.”

5. “By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents, especially women and girls.”

— Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere, little girls would come up to me and say, ‘I want to be like you one day, I want to be a doctor.’ Now, they tell me, ‘I want to be president just like you.’ All of us can dream as big as we want.”

6. “As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere, little girls would come up to me and say, ‘I want to be like you one day, I want to be a doctor.’ Now, they tell me, ‘I want to be president just like you.’ All of us can dream as big as we want.”

— Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.”

7. “The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.”

— Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “When I’m speaking of love, when I’m speaking of reversing hate, I’m speaking not only of reconciliation – even I don’t use that word – I use another word in Spanish, that’s called ‘reencuentro’ – it’s not reconciliation.”

10. “When I’m speaking of love, when I’m speaking of reversing hate, I’m speaking not only of reconciliation – even I don’t use that word – I use another word in Spanish, that’s called ‘reencuentro’ – it’s not reconciliation.”

— Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “Today it is time to give the government a new lease of life and this new phase which is as demanding as it is inspiring requires renovated energy and new faces.”

11. “Today it is time to give the government a new lease of life and this new phase which is as demanding as it is inspiring requires renovated energy and new faces.”

— Michelle Bachelet

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

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

— Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “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.”

13. “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

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “The change of the binominal system is without a doubt, a great advancement, it will allow us to be better represented and have better ideas.”

14. “The change of the binominal system is without a doubt, a great advancement, it will allow us to be better represented and have better ideas.”

— Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. It’s good for the bottom line.”

15. “Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. It’s good for the bottom line.”

— Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “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.”

16. “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

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “In today’s interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.”

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

— Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

— Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women’s right to decent work.”

19. “As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women’s right to decent work.”

— Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “There does not have to be trade-off between growth and social protection. A democracy does not mean much if it doesn’t respond to the needs and will of its people.”

20. “There does not have to be trade-off between growth and social protection. A democracy does not mean much if it doesn’t respond to the needs and will of its people.”

— Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.”

21. “I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.”

— Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “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.”

22. “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

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “The priority for my government is that there will be development for everyone, equally.”

23. “The priority for my government is that there will be development for everyone, equally.”

— Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans.”

24. “Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans.”

— Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.”

25. “I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.”

— Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can’t go.”

26. “Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can’t go.”

— Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.”

27. “We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.”

— Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet Quote: “Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.”

28. “Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.”

— Michelle Bachelet

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