Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.

I call her Wild Woman, for those very words, wild and woman, create llamar o tocar a la puerta, the fairy-tale knock at the door of the deep feminine psyche. Llamar o tocar a la puerta means literally to play upon the instrument of the name in order to open a door. It means using words that summon up the opening of a passageway. No matter by which culture a woman is influenced, she understands the words wild and woman, intuitively.

Latina women are proud to be called Mrs. That simply means that we have a family.

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground.

I am built close to the ground and of extravagant body.

Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered.