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Laura Esquivel

Mexican Author

Born: Sep 30, 1950

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Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a chemical laboratory involving air, fire, water and the earth. This is what gives value to humans and elevates their spiritual qualities. If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. Laura Esquivel

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I am always interested in that relationship between outer reality and inner desire, and I think it is important to pay attention to the inner voice because it is the only way to discover your mission in life and the only way to develop the strength to break with whatever familial or cultural norms are preventing you from fulfilling your destiny. Laura Esquivel

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You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven. Laura Esquivel

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To what extent has each one of us contributed to the rise in violence and hatred? Laura Esquivel

Hatred Rise Us Each Each One Extent Violence

Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values. Laura Esquivel

Nature Technology People Values Magic Industry Human Human Values

We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this. Laura Esquivel

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What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me. Laura Esquivel

Me Others Everyday Magic Call Normal Realism Thing

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 you are expected to become. And society is always there attempting to determine the role we will play within it. Laura Esquivel

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In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in cinema to dig deeper into human thoughts and emotions. And in a novel you can much more easily express a character's inner thoughts and feelings. Laura Esquivel

Character Thoughts You Emotions Cinema Feelings Dig Easily Find More Always Very Quickly Human Form Story Much Use Whole Novel Express Film Deeper Inner Images

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

You Peace Fighting Way Find Only Part Separated Whole

I wanted to share my doubts and my culinary, amorous, and cosmic experiences. So I wrote 'Like Water for Chocolate,' which is merely the reflection of who I am as a woman, a wife, a mother, a daughter. Laura Esquivel

When Chipotle asked me to take part in the Cultivating Thought program both as an author and an essay contest judge, I was excited by the idea of sharing my story through this unique channel and helping young, inspiring writers do the same. Laura Esquivel

Me Judge Thought Young Channel Both Through Inspiring Take Writers Part Excited Sharing Idea Contest Cultivating Author Same Essay Story Asked Helping Unique Program

I cook. I walk. I go to the movies. I meditate. Laura Esquivel

Walk Go Movies Cook Meditate

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