What magic was this, brewed from equal parts of age-old memories and total oblivion. One could have believed that the last war these people had fought had left only happy memories, had carried in its wake nothing but joy and prosperity. Women and girls were smiling as if their sons and lovers were invulnerable. Anna Seghers
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This quote is from a play called "The Homecoming of Gabriela Mistral" by a Spanish poet and playwright, Vicente Aleixandre. In this play, he describes a time in the history of Chile when women had just been liberated from the slavery that had existed under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The women were going through a difficult period of time after their liberation, as many men were leaving for the war that was taking place in Nicaragua. Women were left with few men who could protect them or provide for them. The quote above is an example of how women were coming to terms with the fact that their rights were now limited to those that their husbands and sons could provide.

Source: The Seventh Cross

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