At the end of the conflict, young people questioned gender division imposed by ultranationalism, refused to be classified as male or female, and rejected the use of gender-based pronouns in favor of nonbinary ones. This practice arrived in Europe and the United States several years later.
Patriarchy benefits from classifying people; it makes it easier to exert control.
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them,” wrote Margaret Atwood.
They made you believe you had power; they hammered at your brain over the barracks loudspeakers; they commanded you in the name of your country; and they gave you your share of guilt so you could not wash your hands of it but would be forever bound by ties of blood.
Most people live their lives without any link with the divine and do not note the signs, coincidences, premonitions, and small daily miracles in which the supernatural is manifest.
El primer amor es como la viruela, deja huellas imborrables.
Exert some independence; you’re not a little girl. You can’t let anyone else decide things for you. You have to take care of yourself in this world,” she said.
Fear? Yes, there was fear, but also uncertainty, emotional dependence, force of habit, and the rule of silence that impeded me from talking about what was happening; I isolated myself.
Affection must be cultivated, Camilo; it has to be watered and tended like a plant, but we’d let ours dry up.
Our homeland is where our dead are buried.
The journey of life has long and tedious stretches, step by step, day by day, without anything exciting happening, but memory is made up of the unexpected events that mark your course.
El individualismo se consideraba una forma de demencia.
I realized also that in Nahuel, that town of hospitable neighbors, you only had to scratch the surface to uncover the ugliest of vices, though my mentors insisted that cruelty wasn’t inherent to the human condition, merely something born of ignorance and poverty. “It’s much easier to be generous with a full belly than an empty one,” they said. I’ve never believed that, though, because I’ve seen that both kindness and cruelty exist everywhere.
You’ve accepted that you can’t change the country much less the world, but you can help some individuals.
Fear gets in through the same aperture as love.
I told her she had run an enormous risk rescuing me, and she smiled. It was then I understood that the days of Colonel Garcia and all those like him are numbered, because they have not been able to destroy the spirit of these women.
You are an exceptional man, and it’s not just my senility speaking, half the country would agree with me, and the other half doesn’t count.
That night, talking to Harald about the group of.
When I was a girl in my grandfather’s house, the men in the family had money, cars, and freedom to come and go anytime they wanted, as well as the authority to make all decisions, even the smallest ones, such as what would appear on the dinner menu. My mother had none of that; she lived off her father’s and older brother’s charity. She also had to protect her reputation. How much of that did I perceive? Enough to suffer for it.
I think you’ll see that my life story is worthy of a novel, because of my sins more than my virtues.