Quotes by : Sandra Cisneros

What they don't understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when you're eleven, you're....

I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe....

Once you tell a man he's pretty, there's no taking it back. They think they're pretty all the time, and....

Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains. We still connect, we can communicate, we....

In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting.....

The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny....

I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was....

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big....

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.....

I'm not saying I'm not bad. I'm not saying I'm special. But I'm not like the Allport Street girls, who....