"I'm a witch woman--high on tobacco and holy……" — Sandra Cisneros
"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 sorts...I have the magic of words. The power to charm and kill at will."
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57 Quotes by Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros has 57 quotes on this site.
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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 am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are…
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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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More Charm Quotes
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one of 826 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
— Jane Austen
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us…
— Teresa of Avila
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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch…
— John Adams
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It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was…
— Kate Beckinsale
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There is a charm in making a stew, to the unaccustomed cook, from the excitement of wondering what the result…
— Annie Besant
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Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
— Erma Bombeck
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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,…
— Charlotte Bronte
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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
— Anita Brookner
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When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven,…
— Akhenaton
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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of…
— John Buchan
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A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the…
— Sandra Bullock
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