"I don't want posterity, I don't want anybody to remember me in any way. I don't care about that because I'll be dead. I think the spirit will move to some other state."
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"Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has happened. The battles, the things achieved, the laws, but where are the people, the families? What happens inside the houses, inside the minds and the hearts? That's what I'm interested in."
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"There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them."
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"She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation."
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"I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile."
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"Life is very mysterious and there are many things we don't know. And there are elements of magic realism in every culture, everywhere. It's just accepting that we don't know everything and everything is possible."
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"Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally."
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"Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent."
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"When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry."
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"I'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I."
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"Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women."
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"My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's."
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"Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets."
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"Empowering women means trusting them."
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"I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you’re from or what you did before."
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"She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying."
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"She never imagined a scenario in which her love was not returned with the same depth of feeling, for to her it was impossible to believe that a love of such magnitude could have stunned only her. The most elementary logic and justice indicated that somewhere in the city he was suffering the same delicious torment."
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"He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious."
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"Love is music, and sex is only the instrument."
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"The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners."
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