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• I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a…
• I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to…
• Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
• I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things…
• I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in…
• Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.
• 'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the…
• I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.
• There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count.…
• My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some…
• And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you…
• The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to…

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