3 Quotes & Sayings By Rosario Castellanos

Rosario Castellanos was born in Mexico City on September 6, 1922. She is one of the most important writers of her generation. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages, including English. She is the recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Prize for Literature (Mexico), the International Prize of PEN (Paris), the Tato Laviera Prize (Argentina) and the Cervantes Prize (Spain) Read more

Over fifty of her books have been translated into more than twenty languages.

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The sound is gone. There's nothing left but the insomniac throbbing of crickets. Crickets in the garden, the courtyard, the back courtyard. Close, domestic, identifiable. And those out in the country. Between all of them they raise, little by little, a wall that will keep out the thing that lies waiting for the tiniest crack of silence to steal through. The thing that is feared by all those who are sleepless, those who walk through the night, those who are lonely, children. That thing. The voice of the dead. Rosario Castellanos
2
We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom. Rosario Castellanos