The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
As Indigenous peoples, we know there is more to the world. We know spirits exist. We know as women, because we're especially… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The Mexico - United States border was always porous. People have been going and coming back since before the Spaniards arrived. Now… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I live in a town that's two and a half hours from the border. I know people who have lived in San… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Post 9/11, we've seen such disastrous policies on the border. I live two and a half hours away from the border, and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life. Like my… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are: you're an… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
I'm learning a lot by reading teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron. They teach me because I feel like I have a responsibility… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
I never know what something is going to be until it emerges from the womb and you see the crown of its head and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
Believe it or not, Mexican cooking, for those of you who have not gone farther south than Taco Bell, uses a lot of vegetables.… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
To this day, on my cheat days from my diet, which are New Year's Eve and my birthday, I buy luxury foods that are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
You can never have too much sky . You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
I want to thank you, especially those people who are agnostic or atheist. I don't mean any offense by the things I said of… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" [to be moved]. That, as opposed to "haunt." We wanted… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with me gives… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
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… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
If we got an educational program going, we could tell people, "Instead of butter, use avocado." That's something we eat, it has the good… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
I always have to have sweet and salty. I know some of you are going to say, "Oh, I tried dates. I hate them."… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
