Clotilde Betances Jaeger

"Language has life because it lives in humanity...Language lives in me because it lives in everyone and everyone lives with it."

"The personal and the impersonal coincide because life itself impels them. Killing humanity kills language. Once the language is dead, the human self disappears."

"Every slave of a golden cage feels some hatred towards their master. Wondering the cause of such restlessness, they begin their emancipation."

"Not even the ashes of heroes have peace. Being great is synonymous with loneliness."

"My feminism is the feminism of Puerto Rican writer Clotilde Betances Jaeger, who, in 1929 responded to the racist comment of Carrie Chapman Catt that Latin American women were not helping to build peace, by stating that while peace was a central principle for Latin American and Caribbean women, it was based on freedom from US imperialism."