Luisa Capetillo

Quotes

1. There is nothing more harmful to the success of an endeavor than timidity, pusilanimity, and doubt. This type of cowardice that I believe only the lazy possess. I do not believe anything to be impossible; nor am I amazed by any invention or discovery, which is why I do not find any idea utopian. What is essential is that the idea be put into practice. Begin! The rest is weakness and an erroneous concept of human power. Wanting is doing!

2. 

   What do we think of those who oppose all ideas of equality and human freedom? We consider them traitors, Judases who have betrayed the Teacher. Those who judge unrealized ideas to be utopian are obstacles, and obstacles must be pushed aside. They are those who hinder great initiatives, works for the common good. And still, they call themselves patriots and fathers of the homeland. What idea of the homeland can they have? One that is egotistical, which begins and ends with them. They are everything.

3. 

   If women were appropriately enlightened, educated and emancipated from routine formulism, the political life of most nations would be different

4. 

   A man only used to seeing a woman as an object of pleasure forgets that she is destined to be the mother and teacher of a new generation.

5. 

   In a communist social system in which individuals have the right over everything produced by nature and the ingenuity of all, there could be greater liberty, and a man could form a family without economic and social worries. But we still have not arrived at such an era, it will not take long for this beautiful common process to be established among humans.

6. 

   women are capable of everything and anything

7. 

   No doubt, the first and best school is the home. The best and most superior teacher for the child is an educated mother

8. 

   Individuals of both sexes have fallen into the error of believing that it is only men that have the right to use their freedom as they please.

9. 

   useful hands are preferable to ones that are merely beautiful.

10. 

    what others consider utopian is for me something that can become reality.

11. 

    Let us study and prepare our generation for the future struggles, which lie ahead.

12. 

    It is time that "equality" stop being a vain phrase, and that the rights of both men and women be equal.