I love being a woman. I never felt any less because of the fact that I did. I was born in a small country, Uruguay, where, although there were many failures, the treatment did not distinguish between men and women, or at least I did not feel them.

Our mother only attended school for one year and learned to read and write by cutting out words from newspapers, so she was enrolled in the third grade, but had to stop schooling to raise her remaining seven siblings. He liked to participate in double or nothing contests, where they started by asking general knowledge questions that had a financial prize. This doubled or lost as they accepted more questions. He won several times and retired when the winnings provided a week’s worth of food at home.

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She was a factory worker like our father, until the twins were born. At the time, she worked at home sewing shirts to help the family farm.

In the afternoon, sometimes three women from the house would sit down to talk. We talked about the book Little Women and the Heart, and about the slave who was a poet in the USA, Phillips Wheatley, who was named after the ship that brought her from Africa and the merchant who bought her. Mom admired her resilience and ability to be herself in the midst of a society that rejected her. We twins have learned to stand up for what we want and never stop fighting.

Women fight to be considered equal because we are different.

Time and waters have led me to other paths, other paths, which I love and which I continue to follow today.

What we are and what we need to achieve as women throughout history was not a gift, it was and is the result of the consciousness, struggle, work, and life of many women who conquered spaces and guarded them. Depending on the region and country of the world in which we live, the realities are different and what needs to be achieved is different.

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Women fight to be considered equal because we are different. Equal opportunities to access and contribute to the best things in life, in love, friendship, health, knowledge, research, science, music, art, including spirituality and religions, almost unattainable male dominance in much of the world, because everything human is also ours. This does not mean that we are better or worse, it just means that we must have the same chances to think, do, do right and make mistakes.

Conquering the spaces in which they operate did not always go hand in hand with a better way of building society, because it is about improving the way and knowing how to do it. It is enough to look at what is happening in the Assembly to see that three women presiding over it, as happened before, or in the current temporary parliamentary commission investigating the Encuentro case, did not mean progress. Seeking condemnation of corruption without revenge, firmly, honestly and clearly, achieving a national consensus against the monster of the drug trade and standing as a country in front of the multiple challenges that torment us and threaten to divide us more and more, was not and is not his achievement.

Women must learn to use power to create equality in difference, not the meanness of imposing power. (OR)