being Puerto Rican is more than speaking and writing a language, and more than a language. It is a culture and a way of thinking; an environment; cus… - Rosario Ferré

…Feminine literature is much more subversive than the literature of the men because women often dare to delve into prohibited areas bordering the irrational and the mad, areas dealing with love and death, areas which in our rational, productive, and utilitarian society become dangerous when one acknowledges their existence.

He created the house on the lagoon as one would create a poem or a statue, breathing life into its every stone. (chapter 6, p49)

("What is your reaction when you have finished a work?") I almost always like it immediately after finishing it. I continue to think that I wrote something quite good for a period of maybe six months or a year. But after a year and a half I begin to see some flaws in it, after two years it begins to look pretty bad, after three years it is horrendous, and by the fourth year I want to burn the book.