Maria Isabel Barreno

Maria Isabel Barreno de Faria Martins GOIH (10 July 1939 – 3 September 2016) was a Portuguese writer, essayist, journalist and sculptor.

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O que podemos com elas em nosso favor e de mulher em mulher nos dizermos e contarmos do domínio que ainda somos, despojo hoje de guerreiros que se fingem companheiros em ajudada luta, mas que apenas pretendem montar-nos e serem cavaleiros de Marianas de outros cativeiros presas e monjas de diferentes conventos, sem disso se darem conta?
- How can we use words to help us and talk to each other, woman to woman, and tell each other how we are still the property of men, the spoils today of warriors who pretend to be our comrades in the struggle, but who merely seek to mount us and be cavaliers of Marianas who are prisoners in other prisons and nuns in different convents, without realizing it?
- New Portuguese Letters (1972). Translated by Helen R. Lane, The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters (Bantam Books, 1976 [Doubleday, 1974]), Second Letter VII. Emphasis added. Quoted in Naim Attallah, Women (Quartet Books, 1987), p. 172