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. - Daisy Zamora

I traveled a lot around the country in those first years working as Vice Minister of Culture and I witnessed that the cultural and artistic explosion that took place in Nicaragua right after the Revolution had no precedent: it was like a renaissance and rebirth of all of the cultural richness which had once been oppressed and buried under the weight of the Somocista dictatorship.

I don’t believe in heroes and heroines of one day. I believe in heroes and heroines of everyday life, that it is hard enough, you know, to wake every morning and to do what you have to do, no matter what happens in your life.

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