Regina José Galindo: […]. I have always maintained a clear view on feminism, even if it has come from a certain sense of intuition. You can also understand it because I am the granddaughter of two witches, one grandmother worked legally and the other was more mysterious. Both were heads of their respective families and formed matriarchies. My mother’s mother had seven children and she took them to live in the United States. She set up her clinic as a medium in our house and she was like a magnet to me. It was incredible to see her when she was in a trance. She taught me to use certain herbs and she passed on to me an appreciation for poetry. She too was a poet; she wrote poetry and was a performer.
Rosina Cazali: Really?
Regina José Galindo: Yes. When my grandmother was young, she had a parrot she taught to talk. She was from Zacapa and, as the village poet, they invited her to recite poems with the parrot. Mother Rosario…Her name was Rosario Guzmán
– From ‘Pain in a Handkerchief: The Beginnings: An Interview with Regina José Galindo by Rosina Cazali‘, “Regina José Galindo: Bearing Witness” (2015), pp. 38-47.
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