Sandra Cisneros quotes - page 2

In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind. (Sandra Cisneros)
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within. View quote
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Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces. View quote
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In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine, a muddy color. View quote
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Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains. We still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies. View quote
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My father never wanted me to be a writer. He didn't - he came to terms with it maybe two years before he died. He wanted me to be a weather girl because when I was growing up, there were very few Latinas on television, and in the early '70s when you first started seeing Latinas on TV, they would be the weather girls. View quote
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I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me an award. I couldn't buy a light bulb. Almost more than the money, the awards are important because they show that someone believes in you. View quote
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One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times. View quote
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For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house. View quote
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Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it. View quote
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I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists. (Sandra Cisneros)
I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not. View quote
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Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel. View quote
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I think that Mexican-American kids live in a global world. It's not even bi-, it's multi-. You know, for those of us who grew up with different countries on our block, different nationalities, you know, we moved into multiple worlds. View quote
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I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it was hard to even get those because universities wouldn't hire me as a real writer. View quote
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I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English. View quote
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In the business world, I did fairly well, but wasn't happy. A bout of sciatica put me flat on my back. All I could do was read, listen to my mother's stories about the Sandovals, and daydream: a return to self. My writing career had begun. View quote
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I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less. View quote
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You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are. View quote
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I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin. View quote
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My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges. (Sandra Cisneros)
The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this. View quote
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I'm a witch woman--high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of sorts...I have the magic of words. The power to charm and kill at will. View quote
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The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning. View quote
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I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman. View quote
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