La gran Gabriela

When I was in the school, every year we had to remembered celebrated differents personages. In general, we commemorated some military hero, politician etc. But every year we celebrated too the birthday of the greatest poetess of the national history “Gabriela Mistral”. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature, on 1945. Every year we was recited “Piececitos de niño” a very sad poem about poor kids, and other poems “for childrens”. But when I grew up, I met more of her story and her writings, and I realized about how great she was.

Gabriela Mistral born in 1889 in a little village of the north of Chile. Her real name was Lucila de Maria del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga (when I was a child, this sound like a tongue-twister to me). She was teacher, poetess and diplomat.

Her work speak about love and desolation, a beautiful and sad piece of art. A critical review about her times and what she had to lived.  

She was a feminist and in a sexist country like Chile, she won many honors that only a few women can have.

For she, the most important relation that woman had, was to the children, no in the maternal way that patriarchy imposes to us, if not, in a way deeply and intimate for the communication with himself and the affections.

 She is a example for every woman. If I could have known her, I asked her how I can be so strong and brave like she was, in a this world so unfairness and suffering  without losing the mood to bring about change.

 “ Las mujeres formamos un hemisferio humano. Toda ley, todo movimiento de

libertad o de cultura nos ha dejado por largo tiempo en la sombra. Siempre hemos llegado al

festín del progreso, no como el invitado reacio que tarda en acudir, sino como el camarada

vergonzante al que se invita con atraso y al que luego se disimula en el banquete por necio

rubor. Más sabia en su inconsciencia, la naturaleza pone una luz sobre los dos flancos del

planeta. Y es ley infecunda toda ley encaminada a transformar pueblos y que no toma en

cuenta a las mujeres”