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“MAMA SAL: When you're a girl, hija, and a Mexican, you learn that you only got one shot at being a woman and that's being a mother.

LUNA: Tell Medea. She's the mother, not me.

MAMA SAL: You go from a daughter to a mother, and there's nothing in between. That's the law of our people written como los diez commandments on the metate stone from the beginning of all time.”
― Cherríe L. Moraga, The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea & Heart of the Earth: A Popul Vuh Story

“But old women are different from everybody else, they say what they think.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Word for World is Forest

“I don’t know what ‘human nature’ is. Maybe leaving descriptions of what we wipe out is part of human nature.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Word for World Is Forest

“The library wants to fight back.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns