women were “sold out” by the men that they fought alongside, because those men were uncapable of understanding — much less articulating — a different… - Daisy Zamora

I feel that we are the lost generation. We didn’t want to be as our mothers were. We dreamed to be different, we are trying to be different, but we will never be the women we dreamed we were going to be, because we – we have all this burden of the past, calling us every day, we are in no-woman’s land, you know. With cross fire, but we are staying there, to – to be able to – to cross the fire. (BM: And poetry is a record of that journey?) DZ: Yes.

There were many women who fought to make a revolution within the Revolution, since power is held by men and they won’t give it away by themselves.

In Nicaragua, everybody talks poetry...We have two sports, two national sports. One is baseball, the other one is poetry.