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“‘It’s about time we women had a voice in running our country.’”
“‘You and Trujillo,’ Papá says a little loudly, and in this clear peaceful night they all fall silent.”
Even in the relative calm of their own house, the Mirabal family knows just how far Trujillo’s reach extends. Even saying his name casually can result in trouble for the family, and shows the extent of Trujillo’s police state in the Dominican Republic.
“‘Sometimes, watching the rabbits in their pens, I’d think, I’m no different from you, poor things.’”
Minerva identifies with her family’s caged rabbits as her freedom is curtailed by her father. She must ask him for everything, and longs to be free to go wherever she chooses.
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