We women shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life. — 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
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
I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but… — 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
I don't think I'll write a large novel again because it was like being in jail for me. Even though that's the… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
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 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
Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some… — 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… — 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:… — 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
There are a few of the authors that I think have made a great big impact on my life. The way I… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
To tell you the truth, I think it's about that we shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I feel the fear touches on something deeper. A sense perhaps of, "My life is speeding past me and I can't get… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Some people need flowers, some people need dandelions. It's medicine, it's what you need at that time in your life. — 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
You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Think about the books that you were reading at a certain crisis in your life, what you were reading, and that's because… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the way… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I had no concept of this [healthy food] until very, very late in life, thanks to a trainer/nutritionist that I met who… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I lose things. I write things and they disappear from my desk, my life. I move a lot. I wanted to gather… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I liked the books I read that said things like 'I shan't'. I would try to find a way to say in… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Many books that you read, they have those disclaimers that say that, "None of the events and none of the people are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
A second person that's come to my life very recently, and I'm thankful for it, is Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of 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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![“[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in the middle that were like fables, and I loved hearing fables.” quote by Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a46/sandra-cisneros-862_borges_jorge-luis-borges-had-short-stories-and_102630.jpg)
![“We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" [to be moved]. That, as opposed to "haunt." We wanted the feeling of sadness and grief and obsession, so we used emocionó.” quote by Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8fc/sandra-cisneros-862_changed_we-changed-it-to-emocion-the-way-you-say_108295.jpg)
