“Men demand much more than you think," she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a lot of suffering over little things beyond what you think.”

Colombian writer and journalist

Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, active in the 20th century. Known across Latin America as Gabo or Gabito, he became a major figure in Spanish-language literature. He left law school for journalism after educating himself on his own, and his work and public voice made him widely known. He was also outspoken in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo, and they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.