"How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man."

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Source : Julia Alvarez (1991). “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents”, Algonquin Books

Julia Alvarez

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“And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.”
“Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.”
“In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was moved by the writers, like Chinua Achebe, and I wanted to be able to write rhymes that were as potent as what I was reading.”
“I'm grateful to be alive, because I really did not think I was going to be alive, onstage performing songs.”
“Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged forth in the conceptions of its great minds; they are organs of the time; they speak not their own language, they scarce think their own thoughts; but under an impulse like the prophetic enthusiasm of old, they must feel and utter the sentiments which society inspires.”
“Some people think God is going to guide those humans. The Oneida community and the Shakers both believed that they had received revelations about how to build the New Jerusalem that the Bible says is coming”

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“Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.”
“When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.”

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