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Quotes from A Question Mark Engraved on my Eyelids — Elena Poniatowska

born 1932 France

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That the poorest Mexicans don't deserve their ruling class is a truth that leaps out at once.

A Question Mark Engraved on my Eyelids (1992)

I would like to return to earth because I love life.

A Question Mark Engraved on my Eyelids (1992)

I have always had questions, and to this day, I don't have a single answer.

A Question Mark Engraved on my Eyelids (1992)

I absorbed Mexico through the maids. A system still persists in Latin America which consists of privileged people having at their beck and call the poorest of the poor.

A Question Mark Engraved on my Eyelids (1992)

I have always responded to challenges, followed apocalyptical personalities, apostles, Rasputins, Joan of Arcs who hear voices that come from Heaven, illuminated guides of humanity, holders of truth, priests.

A Question Mark Engraved on my Eyelids (1992)

We have all been made bad, we are all needy, all unwanted guests around the feast, invited at the last minute. In recognizing this lies our creativity.

A Question Mark Engraved on my Eyelids (1992)

To this day, if I ask so many questions, it is because I don't have a single answer. I believe I will die like this, still searching, with a question mark engraved on my eyelids.

A Question Mark Engraved on my Eyelids (1992)

Widows used to go around the way the poet Jaime Sabines would like them to: "There is one way, my love, that you could make me completely happy: die." Now widows are not even merry.

A Question Mark Engraved on my Eyelids (1992)

Life is very resistant. People-the same cannon fodder that nourishes great universal misfortunes, "the wretched of the earth," as Frantz Fanon called them. Suddenly, during an earthquake, one of them saves a life.

A Question Mark Engraved on my Eyelids (1992)

I write in order to belong.

A Question Mark Engraved on my Eyelids (1992)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elena Poniatowska (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.