6 Quotes by Carmen Boullosa

The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.

En nuestra región llovía todos los años, abundante, ruidosa, exageradamente, y el clima era siempre para nosotros benignidad y opulencia. Éramos pueblos de lluvia, acostumbrados a las inundaciones y los excesos de agua. Nuestros ancestros habían perdido las escamas sin abandonar el alma de peces.

Some people die, others just run out of fuel.

I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.

Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.

Women are allowed to enter the spaces of the senses, the space of the body, the spaces opened by sensations, all kinds of feelings, but women are not allowed to enter the spaces of reason to the same extent, that is to say the space of ideas, political ideas.