If I could be another woman for a year, I would choose the British philosopher and writer Mary Wollstonecraft, was the answer of Miss Universe 2023, Sheynnis Palacios, representative of Nicaragua who last night became the successor to the American R’Bonney Gabriel .

Who is the character and why did Miss Nicaragua’s decision influence the jury? Maria Wolstonecraft, Born in London in 1759, she was the author of novels, stories, essays, treatises, a travelogue, and a book of children’s literature. Original stories from real life. She was able to make a living as a professional freelance writer in London, something unusual for her time.

The work Miss Universe was referring to is Justification of women’s rightsfrom 1972, in which Wollstonecraft argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but are equally rational beings who do not receive the same education.. She is a reference for the feminist movement.

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The thinker also passed on her legacy to her daughter with the poet William Godwin. She was Mary Shelley, author of the novel Frankenstein, which became a classic. Sadly, Wollstonecraft died at the age of 38 due to complications from childbirth.

In her youth she worked as a governess, but this left her with little financial resources and frustrated her. This was discussed in Reflections on raising daughters (1787), in which she claimed that even the best educated women of her time could not make a fortune. When she decided to write full-time, her goal was to be “the first of a new genre.”

She also worked as a translator from French and German into English and wrote reviews for the newspaper Analytical assessment. He also wrote Justification of human rights.

Mary Shelley was not his only child. The firstborn was Fanny, who she had during her extramarital relationship with the American Gilbert Imlay. He lived in France during the years of the revolution, and because of his nationality he was in danger and had to return to Britain.

Sheynnis Palacios chose her because she was a feminist, education and independence icon. The new Miss Universe is a mental health activist and audiovisual producer in Managua, Nicaragua. He financed his college education by working in his mother’s food industry. When this crisis broke out, the mother emigrated to find work, and Sheynnis became the breadwinner and caregiver for her grandmother and her younger brother.

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The cause to which he will devote himself during the regnal year will be spiritual health, from your own experiences with anxiety. She is a spokesperson for the Understand Your Mind initiative, in which she interviews emotional care specialists for television.

His goal is to work in a news team and produce content and commercials for international brands. In her spare time she rescues cats and dogs.