Sandra Cisneros Quotes

Once you tell a man he's pretty, there's no taking it back. They think they're pretty all the time, ...

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

Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains. We still connect, we can communicate, we...

Everywhere I go, it's me and me. Half of me living my life, the other half watching me live it.

I'm not saying I'm not bad. I'm not saying I'm special. But I'm not like the Allport Street girls, w...

Seems like the world is spinning smooth without a bump or squeak except when love comes in. Then the...

I realize that when I moved out of my father's house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a...

What they don't understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when you're eleven, ...

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a b...

I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was...

I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are th...

I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs w...

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's infl...

The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Ti...

We're going to right the world and live. I mean live our lives the way lives were meant to be lived....

Okay, we didn’t work, and allmemories to tell you the truth aren’t good.But sometimes there were goo...

I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't belie...

In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means wa...