When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I know there are a lot of women who are afraid of driving on highways. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Even if we don't know if God exists, we can be certain love exists, because its power transcends death. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. "Can't talk, I'm writing today." — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Even though it's hard to believe, but people who know me really well know I'm shy. I have to go past that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
You can try reading books that will help you be a leader, like Marshall Rosenberg and Thich Nhat Hanh. Be very humble… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Afterwards, people come and say, "I felt like you said that just to me. What you said is something I'm going through… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
If you live in poor neighborhoods - I know from living in several poor neighborhoods - the worst supermarkets in the city… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I think I didn't know what I was creating, as much as I knew what I didn't want to do. And I… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
You know, you want to be outrageous when you're young, so all the young people say, "Oooh . . ." Now my tactics are different. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
It's what's available to the poor communities. They do buy healthy stuff, you know, but the lettuce is usually iceberg lettuce and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
A lot of people mistake the persona that I create in poetry and fiction with me. A lot of people claim to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When you edit, you imagine your enemy is seated on the other side of the table. Your enemy! And your enemy is… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something .… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When I was at home, I wasn't shy. I was the clown at home, because I was loved. It was in the… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Your prospective employer, or the person you have a crush on, or the person you want to talk to. You're judging yourself,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When you become a driver, they don't tell you that you have to switch languages. The drivers have their own language and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
As people who are women, who are Indigenous and live on Indigenous lands, we know, and this is something I understand the… — 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
It takes a long time for women to feel it's alright to be chingona. To aspire to be a chingona!...You are saying,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
We started an organization that's the only sub-organization of the MacArthur Foundation and we are called the Macarturos. Usually when I win… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Well, when you're an immigrant writer, or an immigrant, you're not always welcome to this country unless you're the right immigrant. If… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I had to learn quick, because I was performing in Cinco de Mayo festivals with babies crying and people lifting their beers,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
You know that you wouldn't take a baby on a plane without diapers, so when you leave your house, take care of… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
People know when you're speaking from el corazón. You have that pain. Take that pain and do something with it. That's very… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
You know how women have this clock when they want to have a baby? I had this clock where I wanted to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When you speak words that are relevant to people, they automatically shut up and you know you are in the presence of… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
What do we call our Harlem Renaissance? Maybe in the future, it won't be just Latino, maybe it'll be more multi-multi, because,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate… — 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… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to say what you don't know, and speak for what you do know. Say, "I can't speak for all… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I was very lucky. I don't know German, or Dutch, or Chinese, or Thai. I don't know them, so I can't judge,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
You don't want somebody who doesn't know his own heart, do you? You'll find someone who's brave enough to love you. Someday.… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
It's so good for your health to take those naps. I don't know why people brag that they sleep five hours. I'd… — 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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