My Family/Mi familia (1995)

Jenny Gago: Maria

Quotes 

• Jose : Maria, we've had a good life. We've been very lucky.

  Maria : It would have been even better if...

  Jose : No Maria, don't say it. Don't even say it. It is wrong to wish for too much in this life. God has been good to us. We've been very lucky. And our life have been very, very good.

  Maria : You're right. We've had a very, good life

• Maria : [Maria, stunned at Toni's insistence that Jimmy marry Isabel and Toni's audacity]  You young people-! You think that you know everything. That nobody's ever lived before you. Don't you think that *I* know how it feels to be picked up by La Migra and sent away? Without ever seeing *my* family? Without ever knowing what will happen? Do you want to teach *me* something about survival? Well, let me tell you this: there are certain things in life that are sacred- sagradas - and we don't spit on them. Because, without them, it doesn't matter whether we live or die. Marriage is something that we don't spit on. Isabel believes that she is married.