QUOTES
“We
women have presented an alternative proposal to society and to humanity. It is
about the construction of a world where tolerance is a life style; Where daily
social and political divergences and its resolutions would be seen as part of
humanity; Where equality would be possible in all its dimensions; Where knowledge
and access to education and other social possessions would not be the privilege
of a few; A world where violence in all its forms would be past history, where
fear will not overwhelm us and where we shall be able to enjoy the goodness of
existence.”
Our
language does not use arms to gain power: Its power lies in its words
“We
women have the same capacity and potential for power to allow us to be participants
in our own destiny.”
Several
different kind of violence have been exercised against women, among them physical,
psychological, moral, verbal, violence inside the family, conjugal and sexual”
“Re-education
is a life option not only for men, but also for women. The problems related to
gender are the concern of both involved parties. They are the problems of the
entire society. To talk about feminism causes terror, especially to the opposite
sex. Both the one who abuses and the one who allows the abuse must be educated
in a new direction. The idea of he bits me because he loves me is more common
than we believe for a big number of Latin American women. Their mothers and grand
mothers have taught them that this was so, generating a chain of several centuries
of uninterrupted abuse.”
