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. Sandra Cisneros More Quotes by Sandra Cisneros More Quotes From Sandra Cisneros When your writing is unselfconscious, when it comes from your heart, that's when it's powerful. Sandra Cisneros powerful heart writing 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 community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart. Sandra Cisneros community heart thinking I wish somebody had told me love does not die, that we can continue to receive and give love after death. Sandra Cisneros wish doe giving 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 mirrors eye believe When you have your heart broken wide, you are also open to things of beauty as well as things of sadness. 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 sadness spiritual heart The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow. Sandra Cisneros tsunami sorrow letting-go The TSA tears through your bags at the airport and the NSA watches what books you buy and what you say over the telephone and online. It doesn't feel like anything is private anymore. Sandra Cisneros tsa airports book Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other. Sandra Cisneros writing helping fiction The house was immaculate, as always, not a stray hair anywhere, not a flake of dandruff or a crumpled towel. Even the roses on the dining-room table held their breath. A kind of airless cleanliness that always made me want to sneeze. Sandra Cisneros house rose hair It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used to writing and doing these little miniature paintings. Sandra Cisneros stories writing littles 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 whos busy and has too many children, like my mother. Sandra Cisneros hurt mother children I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate Sandra Cisneros chairs tables men Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in Sandra Cisneros bricks crumbling doors Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety. Sandra Cisneros childhood safety memories The devil knows more from experience than from being the devil Sandra Cisneros devil knows life My father always defined my gender to my brothers. He'd say, 'This is your sister; you must take care of her.' Sandra Cisneros you gender sister father 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 name sadness hope waiting I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private. Sandra Cisneros choose i-am me balance Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces. Sandra Cisneros like sewing together writing 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, following the food supply. I was a hunter, gatherer, an academic migrant. Sandra Cisneros year living food moving
