Elena Poniatowska Quotes

#1. The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable.

Camille Flammarion

#2. She can't even think anymore, she prefers to sing.

Elena Poniatowska

#3. In a civilized country you can never tell.

John Le Carre

#4. It torments you to know you were misunderstood, to not have risked yourself, and to wait.

Elena Poniatowska

#5. I write in order to belong.

Elena Poniatowska

#6. But just as you become impregnated with someone, even after that someone is gone, that is how Lilus remained

Elena Poniatowska

#7. The greatest wealth is health

Virgil

#8. We are talking about Christianizing America. We are talking about the Gospel in a political context.

Paul Weyrich

#9. Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up with the book all over his face and hands.

John Steinbeck

#10. And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.

Claude McKay

#11. O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with golfers.

George Carlin

#12. Curiosity is a sort of gluttony. To see is to devour.

Victor Hugo

#13. If this is how you're going to react, I'll freak out more often.

Stephenie Meyer

#14. I believe that everything is political, and as such it should concern all of us. Authors who claim they don't deal with politics in their work are being naive, because even that is a political stance.

Elena Poniatowska

#15. Writers in Latin America live in a reality that is extraordinarily demanding. Surprisingly, our answer to these demands protects and develops our individuality. I feel I am not alone in trying to give their voice to those who don't have it.

Elena Poniatowska

#16. I guess that's the lesson in all of this-not to be eighty years old, looking back on your life, wondering if you made the right choice or how your life might have been different if you'd done one thing and not another.

Mary Simses