I No Longer Have The Energy To

But Here's What I've Learned In This War, In This Country, In This City: To Love The Miracle Of Having Been Born.

There Are Three Points Of View To Everything - Mine, Yours, And The Truth.

I Was A Little Girl Fighting As A Partisan Against Nazi-fascism.

A Lot Of Women Ask Themselves Why They Should Bring A Child Into The World? So That It Will Be Hungry, So That It Will Be Cold, So That It Will Be Betrayed And Humiliated, So That It Will Be Slaughtered By War Or Disease? They Reject The Hope That Its Hunger Will Be Satisfied, Its Cold Warmed, That Loyalty And Respect Will Accompany It Through Life, That It Will Be A Devote A Life To The Effort To Eliminate War And Disease.

And Yet, Or Just For This Reason, It's So Fascinating To Be A Woman. It's An Adventure That Takes Such Courage, A Challenge That's Never Boring. You'll Have So Many Things To Engage You If You're Born A Woman. To Begin With, You'll Have To Struggle To Maintain That If God Exists He Might Even Be An Old Woman With White Hair Or A Beautiful Girl. Then You'll Have To Struggle To Explain That It Wasn't Sin That Was Born On The Day When Eve Picked An Apple, What Was Born That Day Was A Splendid Virtue Called Disobedience.