Women are allowed to enter the spaces of the senses, the space of the body, the spaces opened by sensations, all kinds of feelings, but women are not…

- Carmen Boullosa

In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have this illusion that you …

- Carmen Boullosa

Some people die, others just run out of fuel.

- Carmen Boullosa

Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.

- Carmen Boullosa

I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them. I am all the time writing a novel.

- Carmen Boullosa

The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.

- Carmen Boullosa

I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.

- Carmen Boullosa