Nélida Piñon
Nélida Piñon (born 3 May 1937 in Rio de Janeiro; died 17 December 2022 in Lisbon) was a Portuguese-language writer and a professor.
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Quotes
[edit]- Scheherazade has no fear of death. She does not believe that worldly power, as represented by the Caliph, whom her father serves, decrees by her death the extinguishing of her imagination.
- beginning of Vozes do deserto (2004 novel) translated from the Portuguese into English by Clifford E. Landers with the title Voices of the Desert (2009)
from interview
[edit]in Fourteen female voices from Brazil by Elzbieta Szoka (2002)
- I do not belong to any political party and I do not wish to be a prisoner of rigid ideologies. I have an independent mind and I am propelled by intense humanism, by compassion, by a desire to change current realities. To change means to distribute the benefits, not to concentrate them. But I also know that one must beware of one's own passions because passion is not always one's best counsel.
- I feel that human complexity is of such nature that no God can explain it. And moreover, man tries to invent gods in order to confront chaos, in order to live in the environment of a suffocating or asphyxiating nature that offers little in the way of epiphany. Thus, I am a person of religious impulses, of great emotion, but at the same time I am endowed with the serenity of disbelief.
- the feeling that one gets about the concept of globalization is that it is something new, something that the Romans did not know about, something that the Chinese were ignorant of, something that the Portuguese were totally unaware of. Like we've never had spices or pottery of the Indies companies or tea from the Ceylon tea companies; like the world has always been isolated. The world is a ravenous place. Nations feed themselves from other nations. We cannot delude ourselves.
- I sincerely believe that society is always in transition and that nothing is cemented in stone. For example, I say: Do you believe that the Romans ever imagined over their own long history that the carpenter of Nazareth would change history?
