Cindy Carrillo Quijano > Cindy's Quotes

“Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it. There were stories in the newspapers, of course, corpses in ditches or the woods, bludgeoned to death or mutilated, interfered with, as they used to say, but they were about other women, and the men who did such things were other men. None of them were the men we knew. The news paper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful without being believable. They were too melodramatic, they had a dimension that was not the dimension of our lives. We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“Una diría que la guerra es como las películas de acción. Pero no. Es quieta. Más que quieta es monótona. A la gente la matan y la matan y la matan, pero la guerra sigue. Entonces una siente que no se trata ni siquiera de los humanos. Ni de ganar. Ni de enemigos. La guerra no se trata de nada. Es un agujero que escupe muertos.”
― Laura Ortiz Gómez, Sofoco

“Morir de amor no es lo mismo que morir de ganas, pero se le parece”
― Laura Ortiz Gómez, Sofoco

“El ruido es enemigo del recuerdo.”
― Laura Ortiz Gómez, Sofoco

“Me pongo muy triste cuando pienso en todo lo bueno y bonito que era el mundo antes de que yo naciera. Para no llorar me imagino un frasco de vidrio adentro de mi garganta por donde se devuelven las lágrimas, que van cayéndome adentro del cuerpo”
― Laura Ortiz Gómez, Sofoco