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.

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.

But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

In the end, crime doesn't pay.

In the end it doesn't matter what you do.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.