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I take every risk in writing that I can, because I don't write just to entertain people or make money.

— Ana Castillo Interview with Vice (2016)

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Protect him, yes, with my life; spare him of learning responsibility and to take care of himself, no.

Why is what is natural to women often seen as negative?

A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yourself a good lover won't see it either.

Peel My Love Like an Onion (1999)

In Lak Ech/tu eres mi otro yo–teaches about the ‘other’ and that we are all each other’s reflection.

Interview (2014)

We all participate in patriarchal patterns.

Interview (2014)

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

Étienne de La Boétie Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1548)

Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

Gautama Buddha

Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

Jerome The Cry for Justice (1915)

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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