Is being a woman about wearing heavy makeup and high heels? Is it about having a maternal instinct? Is it about being vain and dressing up a lot? Is it about having to be weak and compassionate? Is it about having to take care of the house, the children, and the household finances?

I have always believed that being a woman is a privilege. By nature, women are sensitive, detail-oriented, and protective. In my experience, women are pillars of our environment, whatever it may be: family, cultural, professional, etc. Beyond the responsibilities that society has assigned to each role, women are always protagonists.

Being a woman is intensity; it's loving with all your heart and hating just as intensely the next minute. Being a woman is life itself. We women laugh and cry without fear of prejudice; we give ourselves permission to get angry and explode, but also to express tenderness and love. We women are the ones who raise our families and profoundly influence their lives. A woman's role is so important that it always has repercussions, whether she is physically present or not.

The most representative state for women is the privilege of creating and giving life to a new being during pregnancy. This is a time of joy and hope, combined with pain and uncertainty. It is a state in which our body and all its energy are focused on nurturing, protecting, embracing, and creating.

We focus on giving everything to others, putting their needs above our own, from that moment on and forever. Being a woman doesn't necessarily mean being a mother, but being a mother always means being a woman.

Being a woman goes beyond fulfilling societal stereotypes; it's more than worrying about having designer clothes and makeup, a luxury car and house, a perfect face, hair, and body.

Our value transcends all things. As women, we have rights, not just obligations; we have decision-making power and the right to vote.

Women are capable of fighting for themselves and achieving any goal they set for themselves. Whether you're a winner or feel like the biggest failure in the world, the reality is that you, as a woman, are powerful, strong, and capable.

Our concept of womanhood is that she is flirtatious, capricious, submissive, obedient, affectionate, among other things that define "woman." This is merely a cultural construct that has been socially formed.

So I think a very important task we women have every day of our lives is to reclaim our own identity and do so according to our own criteria. Many of the characteristics we women exhibit don't come from our genetics, but from our upbringing and how we are socialized. There's a quote I really like from Simone de Beauvoir about this, "One is not born a woman, one becomes one . " From a young age, society, school, our parents, and our grandparents tell us what a woman and a man should be like and what is expected of them based on their behavior. You know, the classic "blue is for boys and pink is for girls," "toy cars for boys and Barbies for girls."

When we are born, we begin to discover our "feminine essence," which is to take on characteristics from our mother, our friends, and the behaviors of women who become our role models, such as actresses, singers, etc.

We are gradually building this essence that characterizes each of us. I believe the important thing is to embrace those aspects that make us happy, that foster our femininity in a way that we are comfortable with, not to let other people dictate what we should do simply because we were born a woman, or what our husband dictates because we are a wife.

You must build your own feminine essence in the way that makes YOU happy, so instead of having an ideal of woman, we must discover what our own ideal is.

I greatly admire women who dare to break the context of society and dare to be themselves, and above all I admire women who appropriate the word "woman", redefine it and take ownership of their gender and their body.