"She says she is in love, but I…" — Sandra Cisneros

"She says she is in love, but I think she did it to escape."

— Sandra Cisneros

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57 Quotes by Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for…
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took…
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…
I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I…
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'…
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer…
There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books…
My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms,…
And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine…
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 Escape Quotes

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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,… — Aristotle
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason… — Billie Joe Armstrong
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact… — Antonin Artaud
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in… — Marcus Aurelius
Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,… — Diane Ackerman
In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed...… — David Bailey
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. — Julian Barnes
We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. — Lynda Barry
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. — Roland Barthes
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. — Henry Ward Beecher

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