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
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  1. 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.

  2. 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...

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

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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