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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Laura Esquivel

Love

Earth

Eating

" 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. "

" Food can change anything. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" To transform yourself is to transform your destiny. "

" 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. "

" 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 like vibrant colors. "

Laura Esquivel

Vibrant

Colors

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Laura Esquivel

Violence

Rise

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Laura Esquivel

Meditate

Cook

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Laura Esquivel

Love

Universe

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

Laura Esquivel

Big

Congress