We women treasure faces; in fact at any given moment life becomes a single face that we can touch with our lips. - Elena Poniatowska

The locomotive was the main protagonist of the Mexican Revolution, but the Adelitas and Valentinas came a close second.

We have all been made bad, we are all needy, all unwanted guests around the feast, invited at the last minute. In recognizing this lies our creativity.

if I had been, say, a French writer, I would have been free to write whatever I wished, which would have been writing of an imaginative sort. But in Mexico, because of the suffering that is the result of centuries of corruption, there is a moral obligation to write of this. I could not ignore it, and, because I have become known for it and have refined my ability to write this way through practice, it became my principal work.