Don't fall in love with a woman who reads, with a woman who feels too much, with a woman who writes...Don't fall in love with a woman who is educated, magical, delerious, crazy. Don't fall in love with a woman who thinks, who knows what she knows and furthermore knows how to fly; a woman who is sure of herself. Don't fall in love with a woman who laughs or weeps while making love, who knows how to transform her flesh into spirit, and even less with a woman who loves poetry (for they are the most perilous of all) or who can spend a half an hour contemplating a painting and cannot live without music.
Don't fall in love with a woman who is interested in politics and who rebels and feels an immense horror of injustice. A woman who likes nothing on television, and whose face and body are of no account to her beauty. Don't fall in love with a woman who is intense, playful, lucid and irreverent. You will not like falling in love with a woman such as this, for, should you fall in love with such a woman, whether she stays with you or not, whether she loves you or not, from such a woman there is no return.
- Martha Rivera Garrido, Dominican poet
