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

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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. "

" Food can change anything. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I like vibrant colors. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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