Rosario Castellanos Professions : Poet Born : May 25, 1925 Died : August 7, 1974 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Rosario Castellanos It’s not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn’t even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves. Rosario Castellanos not-good-enough who-we-are answers We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom. Rosario Castellanos laughter laughing firsts Writing has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand. Rosario Castellanos explaining writing way Laughter is the first evidence of freedom. Rosario Castellanos Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors