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Clotilde Betances Jaeger
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“Language has life because it lives in humanity...Language lives in me because it lives in everyone and everyone lives with it.”
Clotilde Betances Jaeger (1890–1970) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: El Idioma Vive en MÍ" Artes y Letras [Nueva York], año II, núm 17. Noviembre de 1934, p. 4. Anthologized in “El feminismo no es nuevo”: Las crónicas de Clotilde Betances Jaeger edited by María Teresa Vera-Rojas (2020)
“The personal and the impersonal coincide because life itself impels them. Killing humanity kills language. Once the language is dead, the human self disappears.”
Clotilde Betances Jaeger (1890–1970) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: El Idioma Vive en MÍ" Artes y Letras [Nueva York], año II, núm 17. Noviembre de 1934, p. 4. Anthologized in “El feminismo no es nuevo”: Las crónicas de Clotilde Betances Jaeger edited by María Teresa Vera-Rojas (2020)
“Every slave of a golden cage feels some hatred towards their master. Wondering the cause of such restlessness, they begin their emancipation.”
Clotilde Betances Jaeger (1890–1970) first seen 1930 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: El Feminismo no es Nuevo" Gráfico [Nueva York], 9 de agosto de 1930, p. 6. Anthologized in “El feminismo no es nuevo”: Las crónicas de Clotilde Betances Jaeger edited by María Teresa Vera-Rojas (2020)
“Not even the ashes of heroes have peace. Being great is synonymous with loneliness.”
Clotilde Betances Jaeger (1890–1970) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lincoln y Betances" Gráfico [Nueva York], 24 de febrero de 1929, p. 11. En "Charlas femeninas". Anthologized in “El feminismo no es nuevo”: Las crónicas de Clotilde Betances Jaeger edited by María Teresa Vera-Rojas (202…