„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,
„Since my school age, I have been forced to choose between my behavior and my aspirations. I have been asked all the time how one can be into studies and fun at the same time. I faced this stereotype later, in my student years too,
"A special child”, “I don’t know what to do” – these are the questions or concerns that I, as a mother of an autistic child, have often come across and I understand the fear and confusion that drags down the parents and gives them the
“When I was a child, I had light long curly hair, and people used to gasp: “How cute, she looks like Barbie”, or “Look at this Rapunzel”. Needless to say, I used to be glad. I wanted to be the hero of the fairy tale
„Growing up, I was surrounded by women; I was actually brought up by women. The people who have influenced the way I matured were all women. These are the individuals, who stand out in my memory: my mother, grandmother, aunt – my second mother who
„I’ve been a “guerrilla gardener” for about three years. I joined the team in a few months it came into existence and I’ve been an active member since then. I first heard about this movement from a well-publicized incident related to Vake Park. I suddenly discovered
„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
Barbare Sulkhanishvili – was a regular member of the Telavi Department of the Society for the Spreading of Literacy among Georgians (1914-1915). She defended women’s rights in her various newspaper articles and was bold to contradict male writers publicly. Here is an excerpt from one