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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

" I like vibrant colors. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I believe very much in sensual powers as a means of obtaining understanding. "

" Food can change anything. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To transform yourself is to transform your destiny. "