What hurts is not being homosexual, but they tell it in your face as if you were a plague.

- Chavela Vargas

When you like something, you should do it all night long.

- Chavela Vargas

I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am.

- Chavela Vargas

I was never afraid of anything because I never hurt anyone. I was always an old drunk.

- Chavela Vargas

Frida Kahlo taught me a lot without ever bragging about anything.

- Chavela Vargas

I had to fight to be me and get respect, and to carry that stigma, for me, is pride. Carrying the tag of lesbian. I'm not bragging, I'm not preaching…

- Chavela Vargas

I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.

- Chavela Vargas