Laura Esquivel

"Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves"

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

"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…"

"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 d…"

"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. The…"

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