Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. The important things. — 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 an individual with that tongue-in-cheek kind of humor...well, it didn't always lend itself to my poetry. When you're writing poetry, it's like working with gold, you can't waste anything. You have to be very economical with… — Ana Castillo Copy Share
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 we're going to get a lot of plain, mediocre trash. There are a lot of writers who get huge advances for books that don't go anywhere and they have to burn them somewhere or throw them… — Ana Castillo Copy Share
“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
