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We're going to right the world and live. I mean live our lives the way lives were meant to be lived. With the throat and wrists. With rage and desire, and joy and grief, and love till it hurts, maybe. But goddamn, girl. Live.

~ Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros Life Love Passion

I'm not saying I'm not bad. I'm not saying I'm special. But I'm not like the Allport Street girls, who stand in doorways and go with men into alleys.All I know is I didn't want it like that. Not against the bricks or hunkering in somebody's car. I wanted it come undone like gold thread, like a tent full of birds.

~ Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros Loose Women Sex Virginity

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

~ Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros Life Living Observation Self

Once you tell a man he's pretty, there's no taking it back. They think they're pretty all the time, and I suppose, in a way, they are. It's got to do with believing it.

~ Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros Attractiveness Belief Compliments Confidence Men

Okay, we didn’t work, and allmemories to tell you the truth aren’t good.But sometimes there were good times.Love was good. I loved your crooked sleepbeside me and never dreamed afraid.There should be stars for great warslike ours.

~ Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros Break Up Failure Love Poem Poetry

What they don't understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when you're eleven, you're also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, and three, and two, and one.

~ Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros Age Birthdays Life

Seems like the world is spinning smooth without a bump or squeak except when love comes in. Then the whole machine just quits like a loud load of wash on imbalance--the buzzer singing to high heave, the danger light flashing.

~ Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros Danger Disruption Life Love World

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

~ Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros Work Influence Christian

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.

~ Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros Sadness Waiting Color

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.

~ Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros I Am Woman Child

I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it was hard to even get those because universities wouldn't hire me as a real writer.

~ Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros Day Myself Writing

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.

~ Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros Father Myself Realize

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

~ Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros I Am Writing Woman

Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains. We still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies.

~ Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros Love Spiritual People

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

~ Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros Revenge Violence Think

The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn't it?

~ Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros Little Things World

I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone who's busy and has too many children, like my mother.

~ Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros Children Father Mother

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.

~ Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros Power Mirror Believe
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