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1945–2023
Lualhati Bautista is considered one of the most important Filipina novelists in contemporary Philippine literature, known for works like Dekada ’70 and Bata, Bata, Pa’no Ka Ginawa?. She was born on December 2, 1945, in Tondo, Manila, and was influenced early on by her parents’ love for writing.
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(She has long accepted her feelings. She is a woman—not black, not white, neither bad nor good—just a woman free from the chains of inhibition and pretense.)
If we worship U.S products, we may end up worshipping them more than we worship God.)
(Life does not begin at sixty It begins with every smile of the morning.)
(A woman is not born for her own celebration;she is made to become the music of her husband and children.)
(Tranquil shores are only for those who boldly oppose raging waves during storms.)
(A writer is most effective in solitude.)
(You know, even if a woman loves a man, she does not erase her own identity.)
(You know, when a person has no sex life, all they talk about is sex.)
(They say alcohol, medicine , and oppression become habits. That in time, you no longer feel them. But that's not true—especially in the case oppression.)
(It's enough for me to be happy once in a while. So when I'm sad, I can tell myself: I was happy too , sometimes.)
(I don't call that an achievement. Being born beautiful is just luck. Achievement is something you work hard to attain.)
(It was her handwriting—like that of a grade school child—written long ago, when their family still loved each other. It's sad to think about.)
(May it be a beautiful and peaceful, if not prosperous,new year—a year of safety from conflict, illness, accidents, raids, mass arrests, encounters, assassinations, and betrayal by death.)
(Who says there is a difference between the feelings of a sixty-year-olds and a sixteen-year-old?There is none—the pain of heartbreak is just as sharp, the tears just a many when hope dies.)
(For Lea, a child wearing makeup and lipstick looks unpleasant. Instead of making her beautiful, it ruins the natural purity of a child's face and gives it the look of worldliness and experience.)
(But a woman (a person, for that matter), even if her body is restrained, possesses a kind of freedom no one can steal—her freedom to think.)
(He called luxury a 'necessity.)
(Sometimes she thinks that if there are operations for the brain and heart, there should also be one that erases painful memories from them—removing the parts that store the memories that should already be forgotten.)
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