"in Latin America reality surpasses fiction."

"Life is very resistant. People-the same cannon fodder that nourishes great universal misfortunes, "the wretched of th…"

"(What Mexican books deserve greater attention in the United States?) I read Spanish too slowly to have any expertise …"

"We women treasure faces; in fact at any given moment life becomes a single face that we can touch with our lips."

"According to the El Paso Morning Times, in 1914 there were seventeen thousand men and four thousand women in Pancho V…"

"The locomotive was the main protagonist of the Mexican Revolution, but the Adelitas and Valentinas came a close second."

"Nellie Campobello, a great writer, published Cartucho (Cartridge) in 1931. Her explosive book was more like a grenade…"

"I write in order to belong."

"Widows used to go around the way the poet Jaime Sabines would like them to: "There is one way, my love, that you coul…"

"To this day, if I ask so many questions, it is because I don't have a single answer. I believe I will die like this, …"