The eternal struggle

Excerpt from my interview with Beatriz Martinez, professional actress in the VM in Mexico City:
(my translation from Spanish- imperfect)

Me: How would it be, a world where the Vagina Monologues wasn’t necessary? How would the world have to change so that it wouldn’t be necessary to have a play about these subjects, like violence against women and all that?
B.M.: I believe that this world is not the one we belong to. I’m not an optimist, I’m a fighter. And I haven’t let it get me down while I could help it. But, I am not optimist about men. I believe that its our lot to live in this world the eternal fight. And it could be that in fifty years, its not necessary to do the Vagina Monologues, but it would be something else. It would be something else.

Its very difficult to have perspective on our own history, which as it is is very small in relation to the universal history. So, in fifty year, someone might be able to answer this question. [...] With the Monologues, we still don’t have this perspective. And it seems to me that this world we live in is a world of struggle. Today it’s the vagina, tomorrow it will be something else. But it’s a permanent fight. And it seems to me as though the most marvellous part of this is to be alive in the history.
J.M.: Actors in history and actors in the show as well, right?
B.M.: That’s it! That’s exactly it.