# Quote — Luisa Capetillo, A Nation of Women

> How many girls pay for the tantrums, jealousies or vexations of their mothers, who act without any justifying motive, only because they need to blow off steam and they can’t do it in front of their husbands.

- Author: [Luisa Capetillo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/luisa-capetillo.md)
- Book: [A Nation of Women](https://www.leafyquotes.com/luisa-capetillo/a-nation-of-women.md)
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> 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!

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> 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.

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

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