Grandmother Quote by Laura Esquivel

When Chipotle asked me to take part in the Cultivating Thought program both as an author and an essay contest judge, I was excited…

— Laura Esquivel

We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally.

— Laura Esquivel

Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems…

— Laura Esquivel

What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.

— Laura Esquivel

To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.

— Laura Esquivel

Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew…

— Laura Esquivel

The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a…

— Laura Esquivel

To what extent has each one of us contributed to the rise in violence and hatred?

— Laura Esquivel

The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

— Laura Esquivel

“It doesn't matter to me what you did, there are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't…

— Laura Esquivel

Then she cried without tears, which is said to hurt even more like dry labor.

— Laura Esquivel

Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a chemical laboratory involving air, fire, water…

— Laura Esquivel