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" For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe. "

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" Many people think spending an hour or two in the kitchen is a waste of time. But it is a good investment in your spiritual development. "

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

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

" 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. "

" What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life. "

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

" The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals. "

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

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

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

" It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth. "

" 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 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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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. "

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