The writers who have been serious about recreating American literature have always been far and few between. What we do have at the end of the 20th century that we didn't have at the beginning, at that time of the… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive.… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you. — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
When I devoted myself to poetry - and poetry is a very serious medium - I don't think the people that knew me as… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American. — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species. Abortion was… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
As time has gone on and we're at the end of the 20th century and major publishing is a big business, yes, of course… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
“Women endure the labor of childbirth and men send themselves to war! But I gave birth to eight children and never once did I… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge.… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
