Un Estado de Ser: Mi Historia

A birth that doesn't go as expected; a kid diagnosed with an incurable disease that keeps her in bed for more than a year; a teenage girl attacked by a stranger while strolling around the countryside; a woman that escapes a fatal accident by a hair's breadth. These are some of the episodes that are collected in this astonishing and intimate memoir: seventeen grazes with death, as the author calls them, that could have ended up in disaster.

María Josefa Segovia (1891-1957) es una de esas mujeres que, inmersas en su tiempo y proyectadas hacia el nuestro, llegaron a hacer historia. “Los destinos de la mujer culta y su influencia en la sociedad moderna son ahora mismo algo tan grande como impreciso”, escribió don Pedro Poveda en 1931. En su escuela, con creatividad, audacia y discreción María Josefa fue haciendo concreto un modo de ser y de actuar, inédito en su tiempo, algo más común en el nuestro, pero todavía con necesidad de volver los ojos hacia estas personas cuya biografía sigue suscitando admiración y...

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My dad envies me. I've been an orphan since I was eight months old. Unfortunately, I was mistreated by a bad and envious father, and my whole life has been a torment with him. I will describe, in this book, my father as the person who has done the most harm to me throughout my life, for I have never encountered another person like him. Throughout my life, he has sabotaged my achievements, put me wrong with all the family and friends, and never wanted me to get ahead because he feels less than me. Of course, I have forgiven him for all the evil he has done to me, and I ask God to give him good ...