Quotes About Poniatowska

#1. Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

Linus Torvalds

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

Elena Poniatowska

#3. First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop

Lou Holtz

#4. The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

Joseph Campbell

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

Elena Poniatowska

#6. I write in order to belong.

Elena Poniatowska

#7. The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof?

Steven Wright

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

Elena Poniatowska

#9. You are judging demons and beasts unfairly. The only animal capable of such cruelty walks on two legs and arrogantly thinks that he was created in image of God.

Juraj Cervenak

#10. Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.

Stephen Kinzer

#11. 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

#12. 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