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

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"El Idioma Vive en MÍ" Artes y Letras [Nueva York], año II, núm 17. Noviembre de 1934, p. 4. Anthologized in “El feminismo no es nuevo”: Las crónicas de Clotilde Betances Jaeger edited by María Teresa Vera-Rojas (2020)

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