“You have to find where you are needed.
You cannot wait for other people.
You would be waiting forever,” my mom adds.
“Same with the island. It was us.
It was the grandmothers. The mothers.
It was you, Isa and Eliza, who started this organization.
It was the women who saw the need and met it.
Face forward. Unafraid. Who showed up. It was us.”