Sandra Cisneros Quotes

• Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

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  Tags in Childhood

• My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feminism, Humanism

• 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 more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.

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  Tags in Balance, Trying

• I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don’t respect.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Child, Silent

• I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.

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  Tags in Usually

• I don’t see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don’t believe in an eye for an eye. I don’t believe this is truly freedom.

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  Topics in Power

• And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing

• I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Honest, Try

• 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 Chicago.

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  Tags in Raised, Chicago

• Sometimes I feel I can’t quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I’m too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feel, Master

• Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace, Violence

• Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.

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  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Trying

• 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 my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.

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  Tags in Buddhism

• I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People

• I realize that when I moved out of my father’s house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Realize

• But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I’ve been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

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  Topics in Service

  Tags in Meditation, Understanding, Simplicity

Sandra Cisneros (16)

Birth:	20th December, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Novelist, Writer

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