I shuddered like the earth split open by lightning. - Daisy Zamora

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.

women were “sold out” by the men that they fought alongside, because those men were uncapable of understanding — much less articulating — a different concept of power.

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