Mexicans don't think of ghosts as haunting you.

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.

I remember when they started publishing Latino fiction years ago. You had to be really good to get published. Now you don't have to be that good.

Every book changes my writing because I'm always trying to do something I didn't do before. I try to do what's hard for me, what I haven't done in the past.

I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate

I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman.

I learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.