Imagine Americans who go to Paris. Why would you want to go where someone's going to disparage you? Why would you go… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
We are told by media - books, television, reality shows - that heartbreak is this terrible thing and yet we should seek… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I prefer to go to the little towns now, because in little towns people are kind. I like going to Tepotzlán. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
My readers are as diverse as any group you will ever see. Something that booksellers always tell me. That they are always… — 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
Get yourself empty in the Eastern sense. Not in the Western sense. In the Western sense when we feel empty we feel… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The writer Denise Chávez comments on poor food and what you associate with luxury food items. In fact, she wrote a whole… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I was the kind of person that was very social and liked to be with an entourage and have lots of parties… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I grew up with this kind of grocery store that caters to the poor. They serve you the worst food. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
There's all kinds of ways to wean yourself off of sugar - because it is like an addiction. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The house was immaculate, as always, not a stray hair anywhere, not a flake of dandruff or a crumpled towel. Even the… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Now I feel life is really short and I have to take care of things. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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