What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I wasn't aware that 'House on Mango Street' was so influenced by Spanish until after I finished. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Spanish is a poetic language, in particular the Spanish of Mexico which has a wonderful animistic attitude you might not see in… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" [to be moved]. That, as opposed to "haunt."… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I find myself using Spanish words much more now that I'm older, and I guess I have the authority to do it… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I can get by and chatter and talk and tell funny stories, make people laugh, but I don't have as many words,… — 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
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