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Clotilde Betances Jaeger Quotes

1890–1970 Puerto Rico

Clotilde Betances Jaeger (born 1890) was a feminist writer and journalist of New York's Puerto Rican intellectual community during the mid-twentieth century.

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Language has life because it lives in humanity...Language lives in me because it lives in everyone and everyone lives with it.

Every slave of a golden cage feels some hatred towards their master. Wondering the cause of such restlessness, they begin their emancipation.

The personal and the impersonal coincide because life itself impels them. Killing humanity kills language. Once the language is dead, the human self disappears.

Not even the ashes of heroes have peace. Being great is synonymous with loneliness.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Clotilde Betances Jaeger (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.