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Mapendo, in Swahili, means great love. The protagonists of my books are strong and passionate women like Rose Mapendo.
在斯瓦希里語中馬培德意味著愛。我的書中的主角都是堅韌且充滿熱情的婦女，正如羅斯·馬培德那樣。
I don't make them up. There's no need for that. I look around and I see them everywhere.
她們并非虛構。也沒有必要虛構。在我身邊這樣的身影無處不在。
I have worked with women and for women all my life. I know them well.
我一生都和女性也為女性而工作。我對她們非常熟悉。
I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family.
很久以前我出生于很遠的地方，出生于一個宗主派天主教的保守家庭。
No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist -- although the term had not reached Chile yet,
難怪我在5歲時就是熱血沸騰的女權主義者，不過當時女權這個詞并不流行，
so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.
因此沒人知道我到底哪出了問題。
I would soon find out that there was a high price to pay for my freedom, and for questioning the patriarchy.
很快地，我就發現要想享受自由得付出極高的代價，還有與長輩頂嘴。
But I was happy to pay it, because for every blow that I received, I was able to deliver two.
但是我還是會去頂嘴，因為我每次被罰時下次都會被雙倍奉還。
Once, when my daughter Paula was in her twenties, she said to me that feminism was dated, that I should move on.
有次，我當時20多歲的女兒寶拉給我說女權運動過時了，叫我好好過日子。
We had a memorable fight. Feminism is dated?
我們為此吵了一場難忘的架。真的過時了嗎？
Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today,
的確，對于我女兒和在座各位這樣幸福的女性，的確是過時了，
but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor
不過對其他地方的姐妹們卻并非如此，她們仍然在很小時就嫁人，成為童妓，被強迫工作，
they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
生下自己不想要或者養不起的孩子們。
They have no control over their bodies or their lives. They have no education and no freedom.
無法掌控自己的身體和人生，無法教育且沒有自由。
They are raped, beaten up and sometimes killed with impunity.
被強暴，毆打，有時還因受罰而被殺。
For most Western young women of today, being called a feminist is an insult.
對如今大多數西方年輕女性來說，被叫做女權主義者是一種污辱。
Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.
女權主義永遠不會性感，但我要向你們擔保，我并沒有失去調情的時機，并且我也很少受到缺乏男子氣概的影響。
Feminism is not dead, by no means. It has evolved.
無論如何女權主義并沒有逝去，它只是不斷在進化。
If you don't like the term, change it, for Goddess' sake.
如果你并不喜歡這詞的話，在上帝的保佑下改變。
Call it Aphrodite, or Venus, or bimbo, or whatever you want;
改名叫愛芙羅蒂、維納斯或花瓶，如果你喜歡的話；
the name doesn't matter, as long as we understand what it is about, and we support it.
名稱并不重要，只要我們互相了解并理解其含義。
