Rosario Castellanos Quotes

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I remember, we must remember
until justice be done among us.

Rosario Castellanos
I, who have been a net spread in the deep,
return to the surface without a fish.

Rosario Castellanos
Supreme pride is supreme
renunciation. I did not want
to be the dead star
that absorbs borrowed light to revive itself.

Rosario Castellanos
We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.

Rosario Castellanos
I'm a woman sitting here with all my words intact
like a basket of green fruit.

Rosario Castellanos
I rock my pain to sleep like a mother her child
or I take refuge in it like a child in his mother
alternately possessor and possessed.

Rosario Castellanos
Writing has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand.

Rosario Castellanos
It's not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn't even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves.

Rosario Castellanos
No one is necessary
not even for you, who by definition
are so needy.

Rosario Castellanos
Then silence happened:
the silence that is born of water, foaming,
Suddenly it curdles in a looking glass.
So we grow quiet. We do
the same as lakes to see the sky.

Rosario Castellanos
I wore old age like a tunic
too heavy for my shoulders.

Rosario Castellanos
A word is the taste
our tongue has of eternity;
that's why I speak.

Rosario Castellanos
All we can do is dream, or die,
dream that we do not die
and, at times, for a moment, wake.

Rosario Castellanos
I am the daughter of myself.
I am born of my own dream. My dream sustains me.

Rosario Castellanos