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" Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge. "

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" I am always interested in that relationship between outer reality and inner desire, and I think it is important to pay attention to the inner voice because it is the only way to discover your mission in life and the only way to develop the strength to break with whatever familial or cultural norms are preventing you from fulfilling your destiny. "

Laura Esquivel

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" What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need. "

" You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven. "

" I cook. I walk. I go to the movies. I meditate. "

Laura Esquivel

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" I like vibrant colors. "

Laura Esquivel

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" As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught. "

" Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a chemical laboratory involving air, fire, water and the earth. This is what gives value to humans and elevates their spiritual qualities. If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. "

" The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole. "

" I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were illegal in Mexico. She had a chapel in the home, right between the kitchen and dining room. "

" In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in cinema to dig deeper into human thoughts and emotions. And in a novel you can much more easily express a character's inner thoughts and feelings. "

" 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. "

" To transform yourself is to transform your destiny. "

" There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values. "

" What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me. "

" As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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 was pretty much a hippie. I was a vegetarian, gypsy-like. I liked to meditate, and it's curious because I was very much attracted to the possibility of change. "

" Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well. "

" I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects. "

" I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective. "

" I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal. "

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" The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves. "

" I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food. "

" We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally. "

" To what extent has each one of us contributed to the rise in violence and hatred? "

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Rise

" The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire. "