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49 quotes by Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954) is an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Street (1984) and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). Her work experiments with literary forms and investigates emerging subject positions, which Cisneros herself attributes to growing up in a context of cultural hybridity and economic inequality that endowed her with unique...
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I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me an award. I couldn't buy a light bulb. Almost... →

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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... →

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I spent my thirties living out of boxes and moving every six months to a year. It was my cloud period: I just wandered like a cloud for ten years... →

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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... →

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In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine, a muddy color.

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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 to both serve the... →

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In the business world, I did fairly well, but wasn't happy. A bout of sciatica put me flat on my back. All I could do was read, listen to my... →

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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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I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times.

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Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

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For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.

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I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the way to adulthood, and listening to all kinds of... →

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I liked the books I read that said things like 'I shan't'. I would try to find a way to say in my life, to reply, 'I shan't do... →

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