"I learned to distrust the smiles that abounded at those social events. As soon as Grandma returned home from the part…"

"She would laugh until she choked, never noticing if anyone else shared her mirth."

"they’ve forgotten me, just as you forget a fly that you’ve just shooed away a few seconds before."

"This year our classroom faces the street. The window’s very high, so from our desks we can’t manage to see the people…"

"Steimberg was the first woman writer in Argentina to write with subversion and tenderness about the immigrant conditi…"

"Alicia Steimberg...recovers the almost hidden magic of objects that appear and that are transformed in her stories of…"

"She was a teacher to her marrow, as evinced by two recent publications of which she was very proud, Aprender a escrib…"

"Like most great souls, Alicia didn’t take herself too seriously."

"it was in Buenos Aires, her native city, where Alicia was most at ease, most relaxed. I’ve had the privilege of wande…"

"What the Roman Empire is to European history, the Mongol Empire is to Asian history."