sandra cisneros

“ You would see me less and less and like me better. ”

“ I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalogue. ”

“ I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy. ”

“ I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. ”

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

“ 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. ”

“ I liked the books I read that said things like 'I shan't'. ”

“ I will meet a man who likes a chingona, one day. One day, my chingon will come. ”

“ I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less. ”

“ My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms. ”