Frida Kahlo

Pies, para que los quiero si tengo alas para volar. (“Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.”)

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say

You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That’s a horrible existence for people.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

I’m not a survivor. Survivor comes from saying you barely made it and you’re a victim. I am triumphant. I’m not a survivor.

I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.

You are writing your children’s future with your answers.

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.