You know how women have this clock when they want to have a baby? I had this clock where I wanted to win a national award by thirty, be at a big press by thirty-five. I was always working with these self-driven goals.
Sandra CisnerosBooks are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that time in your life.
Sandra CisnerosSpanish is a poetic language, in particular the Spanish of Mexico which has a wonderful animistic attitude you might not see in the Spanish of the peninsula. I think it has to do with the indigenous way of looking at nature.
Sandra CisnerosI think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance.
Sandra CisnerosThe most powerful speaking you can do is the speaking that comes from your heart and your love.
Sandra CisnerosEverything is holding its breath inside me. Everything is waiting to explode like Christmas. I want to be all new and shiny. I want to sit out bad at night, a boy around my neck and the wind under my skirt. Not this way, every evening talking to the trees, leaning out my window, imagining what I can't see.
Sandra Cisneros