"It is still prevalent today to view texts differently depending on whether they have been written by a woman or a man. I have had to face it too many a time. My texts have been evaluated as “written by a woman” too. Female writers
„I had an innate sense of protest against prohibitions ever since I can remember but I gave it the name “gender based discrimination” only later, when I became a majoritarian MP candidate. Even as a little girl, I realized that my brother was in a
„My mother was the eldest child in the family. They told us myths about our grandparent’s love, yet, when grandma gave birth to a girl, grandfather did not talk to her for two days. Apparently, he, like every Georgian man, wanted a boy. Maybe this,
„My childhood was rather difficult. When I was 15, my 20-year-old brother was killed in a car accident. I was the only child left in the family. Not that we put up with his loss, no, but we actually learned to live with a diseased
„I have been like a fish who swims against the flow since my childhood. My mother often told me that I would find difficult to live if I did not change. I have been always different from the environment in which I have had to
“I was 33 when I was pregnant with Niku. I had a difficult pregnancy. In my 32nd week, my obstetrician demanded termination of pregnancy because of undoubted signs that the child would not be born healthy. My husband’s family suggested abortion on the pretext that
„I was born with a spinal hernia and underwent surgery when I was one-year old. I had been developing normally before the surgery. I moved my legs. However, after an improper surgical intervention they told my parents that the surgery was not successful. Had this
„I was born and brought up in Jandara, this is a borough in the city of Marneuli. I finished school in Jandara. My Georgian was rather poor at the time of learning at school but we were not really supposed to know this language. The
“My dad was an artist, which means he was frequently jobless. Mom had to work so my little sister Lika and I spent most of the day with dad. If you asked me to choose between dad and chocolate, I would pick dad. He was