3 Quotes & Sayings By Leonor Varela

Leonor Varela was born in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, in 1940. She has studied at the University of Edinburgh (M.A., Spanish), at the Sorbonne (Ph.D.), and at the University of Cambridge (D.Phil.). She has taught Spanish language and literature at several universities in England, Europe, and South America. Her research interests include the history of English linguistics and the sociolinguistics of modern Spain.

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Ask any parent what we want for our children, and invariably we say 'a better life.' To that end, we give our time, our sleep, our money, and our dreams, much as our parents did before us. We all want a better life for our children. But what we want for them ceases to matter if we leave them an unlivable world. Leonor Varela
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I don't need jewels and cars. It's about the delicacy of the way I'm handled. Leonor Varela