137 Quotes by Laura Esquivel

We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.

I wanted to share my doubts and my culinary, amorous, and cosmic experiences. So I wrote 'Like Water for Chocolate,' which is merely the reflection of who I am as a woman, a wife, a mother, a daughter.

When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'

We know that the hardest work is to keep yourself open to the world that technology hasn't tamed.

Food can change anything.

To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.

Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular family - Jewish or Islamic or Christian or Mexican - and your family determines to some extent what you are expected to become. And society is always there attempting to determine the role we will play within it.

The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.