"Day by day, proud human beings that we are, we have a tendency to renounce our elemental roots, which accounts for the fact that women no longer appreciate their braids. Being rationalists nowadays, women in cutting off their braids ignore that in effect they are severing their ties with those magic currents which issue from the very heart of the earth. Because a woman's hair springs from the most profound and mysterious source, whence is born the first trembling seed of life-evolving therefrom to struggle and grow among many entangling forces, thrusting through the vegetal surface into the air and on upwards to the privileged forehead of its choice."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
beginning of "Braids"
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Luisa_Bombal
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
María Luisa Bombal
8 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by María Luisa Bombal →
Related Quotes
"Today, in Santiago, Chile, or Buenos Aires, in Caracas or Lima, when they name the best names, María Luisa Bombal is …"
"I wish to inform the reader that even though this is a mystery, it is a mystery without murder. He will not find here…"
"The story I am about to tell is the story of my life. It begins where other stories usually end; I mean, it begins wi…"
"As night was beginning to fall, slowly her eyes opened. Oh, a little, just a little. It was as if, hidden behind her …"
"I am privy to much that is unknown. Of sea and earth and sky I know an infinity of small and magic secrets. This time…"
"For the majority of readers, Latin American fantastic literature operates under the tutelage of the great masters: Jo…"
"Here’s a very short list of Latin women novelists I think should have been considered part of the Boom…Mexico: Elena …"
"... This is a most decorative herb, with pink buds on stems covered with purplish-grey hairs that glisten in the sun.…"
"grows some 6–12in. high, spreading laterally, with a "japanses" style of growth, and has mint-blue flowers, like the …"
"In one home, the newly-wed is learning to cook, and as her husband enjoyed straight , she is enchanted when her roast…"