"I am a woman, and I am a……" — Sandra Cisneros
"I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power."
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57 Quotes by Sandra Cisneros
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I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for…
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I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took…
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Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
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I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I…
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Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.
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'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino'…
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I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer…
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There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books…
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My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms,…
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And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine…
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The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is…
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You don't want somebody who doesn't know his own heart, do you? You'll find someone who's brave enough to love…
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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not…
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
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Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous…
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Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and…
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The Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road with a personality, a…
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Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing…
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In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work…
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Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said…
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There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and…
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I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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The grace of forgiveness, because God Himself has paid the price, is a Christian distinctive and stands splendidly against our…
— Ravi Zacharias
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What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men…
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