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“I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.
— Dilma Rousseff
President of Brazil
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Photo: Jakub Hałun · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · Portrait: Roberto Stuckert Filho/Presidência da República (Attribution)
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