Margo Glantz Quotes

born 1930 Mexico

Margo Glantz Shapiro (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmaɾ.ɣo ˈɣlants]; born January 28, 1930) is a writer, essayist, critic and academic who lives in Mexico. She has been a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua since 1995.

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Time is a space marked out and filled with the ceaseless chanting of prayers by which a devout Jew measures his life.

The Family Tree (1981)

Living with someone probably means losing part of your own identity. Living with someone contaminates (36)

The Family Tree (1981)

It doesn't matter much whether you're a Jew or not, what matters is whether you're willing to fight against the herd instinct. (13)

The Family Tree (1981)

All of us, no matter whether noble or not, have our own family trees. (Prologue)

The Family Tree (1981)

There is no such thing as a race without its own cooking. Or even without its daily bread. (43)

The Family Tree (1981)

One of the first things that occurs in totalitarian regimes, as we saw with research, such as Hitler and Stalin et al., is the act of abhorring culture, of banning and burning books.

Interview (2020)

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