Culture Quote by Julia Alvarez

“I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to.” quote by Julia Alvarez — Download Open image

“I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to.”

Julia Alvarez

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