Children Quotes by Sandra Cisneros

My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.

— Sandra Cisneros

Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

— Sandra Cisneros

When I was a child, I was very shy, and there's still a part of me that's very shy.

— Sandra Cisneros

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a…

— Sandra Cisneros

Generally if you're a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies…

— Sandra Cisneros

I didn't marry. I didn't have children. I followed the food supply for jobs. I kept writing at night. And that kept…

— Sandra Cisneros

I think one of the great primordial fears we have once we become conscious of our aloneness as children is the fear…

— Sandra Cisneros

I was raised a Catholic, but with very liberal parents, so I had to find my spirituality. I've been looking for it…

— Sandra Cisneros

I think that it's not enough to do the little Band-Aid things of having celebrities come and read to children. Not that…

— Sandra Cisneros

We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are:…

— Sandra Cisneros

I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible…

— Sandra Cisneros

True love in Mexico isn't between lovers; it's between a parent and a child. Mexico is a very intense culture of sons…

— Sandra Cisneros

If educators were really understanding of that, they'd say, "You know what? Forget about bilingual, we're going to do multilingual education." So…

— Sandra Cisneros

My idea was always to start with a small press and then move up to a national press. I had those goals…

— Sandra Cisneros

I had a mother who walked to the library with me, and you can't walk to a lot of libraries in San…

— Sandra Cisneros