Quotes by Laura Esquivel

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Writer and politician · Mexican

Mexican writer and politician

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love food feminism womanhood fiction latin-american communication dancing loneliness cooking identity sin unity assimilation exclusion immigration judgement punishment slavery Nature Values People fire lust matches life soul words romance magic-realism

“Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.”
— Laura Esquivel
Nature Values People

“The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.”
— Laura Esquivel
Fighting You Find

“What she liked the most about drinking was not being present, that feeling of self-evasion, of disconnection, of liberation, of escape. Alcohol offered her an excellent alternative to being herself...”
— Laura Esquivel
alcoholism drinking

“The only thing that had saved her then was knitting. In prison she had become a compulsive knitter. Knitting allowed her to unite, to connect, to integrate. With every stitch she held on to dear li...”
— Laura Esquivel
connection fabric knitting prison

“...a woman, silent, voiceless, a mere woman who didn't bear on her shoulders the enormous responsibility of building the conquest with her words. A woman, who, contrary to what would be expected, f...”
— Laura Esquivel
feminism love womanhood

“Lupita thought that people who didn’t dance were selfish and lonely.”
— Laura Esquivel
dancing loneliness

“At a certain point in his life he stopped searching for himself in everything that exists and gave in to temptations. Or, as you say, he sinned and later fled.”
— Laura Esquivel
identity sin unity

“Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with ...”
— Laura Esquivel
assimilation exclusion immigration judgement