The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life.
Sandra CisnerosThis is the age of fear and so many of us feel afraid to speak out about what has happened to our lives in the wake of 9/11. Television promotes the world as a scary place for the United States and this justifies peeling away every element of privacy we had before. The media is monopolized so we don't even hear a lot of dissent about this new era.
Sandra CisnerosYou have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.
Sandra CisnerosI'm a witch woman--high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of sorts...I have the magic of words. The power to charm and kill at will.
Sandra Cisneros