Corazon Aquino was not the patriotic woman that we've come to know and love until her death. She was in her own words "a plain housewife"--a housewife who belonged to a wealthy land-owning family at that.
But like Lorenzo Tañada, another Marcos opposition stalwart, who, in Randy David's words, "belonged to that generation of aristocratic Filipino leaders—the legatees of a Filipino “ilustrado” class that imagined itself, in Jose Rizal’s words, “the brains of the country, within a few years … its entire nervous system” and whose "advocacy of civil liberties matured into a commitment to fundamental social rights"---like Lorenzo Tañada, Cory was transformed by her times.
From a plain housewife, she had become an icon of democracy.
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