Quotes About Maguey

When you think of home, you think about your mother. She was creative--she conceived you and gave you life. Like the maguey, woman is life-sustaining. As the plant renews and sustains life, woman procreates and maintains. The maguey is the symbol of home, of hogar .

María picked a thorn off the top of a maguey, made thread out of the sinews of the leaf, and told the maguey: 'Pardon me for taking your needle, pardon me for threading the needle with your body, pardon me for love, pardon me for I am what I am, and I do not know what this means.