"The Youngest Doll" was a very important story. It was the story that showed me how to write. It was my first breakthrough. - Rosario Ferré

I think that accepting biculturalism is smarter than perpetuating the unyielding Nazi, fascist idea that we can only speak Spanish in Puerto Rico and that we can only think in nationalist terms.

It's not that I want to victimize men, but I think that women have been the victims throughout the centuries, a fact which has been incorporated into mythology and which I thought it was high time to change.

There's still a fraternity of men. They admire themselves, and they admire each other's works. I think they are a little bit scared of women, too.