Memorable Quotes from Elizabeth Peña
7 quotesCultural Heritage and Culinary Traditions Explored
Coworker
Your mother's family is Spanish?
Pilar Cruz
Sure, they go back to ]. When he rode by, they were squatting in a hut cooking hamsters for dinner.
[[w:Hernán Cortés|Cortés]
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Rejecting the Weight of History
Pilar Cruz
All that other stuff, all that history? To hell with it, right? Forget the Alamo.
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Desire for control in relationships
Rosie Morales
He doesn't want a wife. He wants a love slave, one that he can kick around.
[about Bob]
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Conflicted Loyalties Among Family Members
Connie Valenzuela
How could you do this to Ritchie?!
Bob Morales
To Ritchie? I did this to me, okay!
Rosie Morales
That's my Bob, always thinking of others first.
Bob Morales
Shut your goddamn mouth!
Ritchie Valens
Hey man, don't take it out on Rosie, okay.
Bob Morales
Ritchie, you don't understand man. You don't understand a goddamn thing! What do you think, the whole fuckin world revolves around you?
[walking away]
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Confrontation Over Unexpected Pregnancy
Bob Morales
Look Rosie, you're not my wife. Quit being such a drag. What the shit's eating you anyway?
Rosie Morales
I'm pregnant. Well aren't you gonna say anything?
[long pause]
Bob Morales
What's there to say? It's not my first. Or my last.
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Unexpected Family Revelation in Conversation
Bree Osbourne
I got a phone call last night from a juvenile inmate of the New York prison system. He claimed to be Stanley's son.
Margaret
No third-person.
[''Brief pause'']
Bree Osbourne
My son.
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Cultural Identity and Maternal Influence
Pilar Cruz
All my mother does is work. That's how you get to be Spanish.
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