Sandra Cisneros Quotes

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• I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy…
• I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of…
• It takes a long time for women to feel it's alright to be chingona. To aspire to be a chingona!...You are saying, 'This is my…
• In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine,…
• One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.
• I spent my thirties living out of boxes and moving every six months to a year. It was my cloud period: I just wandered like…
• Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains. We still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is…
• The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself.
• I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become…
• Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in…
• With you I'm useless with words. As if somehow I had to learn to speak all over again, as if the words I needed haven't…
• She says she is in love, but I think she did it to escape.
• Only a house, quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem.
• If blood is thicker than water, then menstruation is thicker than brotherhood.
• I want to know how love can grow irrevocable and prove the fable true.A love exists that gives. And won't take back what's given.
• One day I'll own my own house, but I won't forget who I am or where I came from.
• She doesn't need anybody to laugh with, she just laughs... and sees beautiful things everywhere.

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