Ingrid Betancourt Quotes
-
I think that women are peacemakers by genetics, because we are the ones who stay at home and because we are the ones who suffer with the aftermath of war.
-
We're humans. Why always turn human attitude into political behaviours? I hate that.
-
I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.
-
In the free world, your days pass very quickly because you have so many things to do, and you're in control of your life.
-
I love Colombia's military. I love my country.
-
At first, I didn't want to accept that I had been abducted. I kept thinking, 'Next week, I'll be freed.'
-
More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.
-
The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.