"Today, Gandhi would not do. What I needed was a shot of Fidel's fiery rhetoric. He would have agreed with me. We had to do something, soon!" Dedé "Even so, that night, her ears still ringing from Jaimito's shout, Dedéhad been ready to risk her life. It was her marriage that she couldn't put on the line... Her life had gotten bound up with a domineering man, and so she shrank from the challenge her sisters were giving her."
Patria
"Mamá always said Patria's sweetness could move mountains, and monsters, obviously."
María Teresa
"...the little sister who still wore her hair in braids and dressed herself and her baby girl in matching dresses." Trujillo
"Mama had acquired this latest portrait and hung it all by itself, out as far as she could get it from the rest of the house. He was older now-- heavier, his jowls thicker, the whole face tired out, someone who had too much of all the bad things in life."
Minerva
"Today, Gandhi would not do. What I needed was a shot of Fidel's fiery rhetoric. He would have agreed with me. We had to do something, soon!"
Dedé
"Even so, that night, her ears still ringing from Jaimito's shout, Dedéhad been ready to risk her life. It was her marriage that she couldn't put on the line... Her life had gotten bound up with a domineering man, and so she shrank from the challenge her sisters were giving her."
Patria
"Mamá always said Patria's sweetness could move mountains, and monsters, obviously."
María Teresa
"...the little sister who still wore her hair in braids and dressed herself and her baby girl in matching dresses."
Trujillo
"Mama had acquired this latest portrait and hung it all by itself, out as far as she could get it from the rest of the house. He was older now-- heavier, his jowls thicker, the whole face tired out, someone who had too much of all the bad things in life."