Quotes by : Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real....

We’re afraid the others will think we’re agringadas because we don’t speak Chicano Spanish. We....

Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity,....

Though we tremble before uncertain futuresmay we meet illness, death and adversity with strengthmay we....

Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar. (Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them....

I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep

Maimed, mad, and sexually different people were believed to possess supernatural powers by primal cultures'....

I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkness....

A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.

I will have my serpent’s tongue - my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice. I will overcome....