Sandra Cisneros Quotes

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• The devil knows more from experience than from being the devil
• Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything…
• I believe love is always eternal. Even if eternity is only five minutes.
• I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.
• The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.
• Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to read and reread…
• I'm a witch woman--high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of…
• You can never have too much sky.
• I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives,…
• Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime…
• When your writing is unselfconscious, when it comes from your heart, that's when it's powerful.
• The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the…
• My Virgen de Guadalupe is not the mother of God. She is God. She is a face for a god without a face, an indigena…
• Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.
• You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.
• I realize that when I moved out of my father’s house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a…
• I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.
• I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can…
• You can never have too much sky . You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when…
• I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for…

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