Sandra Cisneros quote: "My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men."

Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces.
SANDRA CISNEROS

I spent my thirties living out of boxes and moving every six months to a year. It was my cloud perio...
SANDRA CISNEROS

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

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white st...
SANDRA CISNEROS

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

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took ...
SANDRA CISNEROS

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

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how ...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish ...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sab...
SANDRA CISNEROS

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

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.
SANDRA CISNEROS

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's ...
SANDRA CISNEROS

In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are th...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I think that Mexican-American kids live in a global world. It's not even bi-, it's multi-. Y...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor ...
SANDRA CISNEROS

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

I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me a...
SANDRA CISNEROS

The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself.
SANDRA CISNEROS

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselve...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depend...
SANDRA CISNEROS

There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presse...
SANDRA CISNEROS

The good stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jo...
SANDRA CISNEROS

But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humani...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, n...
SANDRA CISNEROS

In the Bay, whenever I got depressed, I always drove out to the Ocean Beach. Just to sit. And, I don...
CISNEROS SANDRA

Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to ...
SANDRA CISNEROS

In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means wa...
SANDRA CISNEROS

Little thorn in my soul, pebble in my shoe, jewel of my life, the passionate doll who has torn my he...
CISNEROS SANDRA

One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've eve...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece...
SANDRA CISNEROS

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply ...
SANDRA CISNEROS

Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a ...
SANDRA CISNEROS

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a di...
HENRY CISNEROS

We can either allow our youth to shoot baskets or watch them continue to shoot people
HENRY CISNEROS

One thing that the studies make very clear, ... is that the other cities who are already ahead of us...
HENRY CISNEROS

We know of four Japanese biomedical companies right now that are using San Antonio clinical faciliti...
HENRY CISNEROS

If we are not honored with the games, that might be for the best. We don't want to mix motives here,...
HENRY CISNEROS

This is not a critique, ... but just a recognition that as strong as we think our biotechnology and ...
HENRY CISNEROS

We don't except junk. This is not about getting rid of an old computer. We want usable equipment.
GEORGE CISNEROS

If that can be done in Detroit, it can be done in a lot of American cities.
HENRY CISNEROS

You could argue that an N.F.L. team is less important now. But I'd like to think it would still be a...
HENRY CISNEROS

That's why we have to run faster than the pack in order to close the gap and get ahead -- or be rele...
HENRY CISNEROS

I don't think we have any time to waste.
HENRY CISNEROS

kicking New Orleans while it's down.
HENRY CISNEROS

Antonio is constantly sweeping the horizon for the right answer,
HENRY CISNEROS

The idea is to boost the home-ownership rate, ... Rates for ... newlyweds are (currently) low. We're...
HENRY CISNEROS

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and...
HENRY CISNEROS

The idea of helping revitalize cities with physical projects and them taking the form of housing rea...
HENRY CISNEROS

I've been able to live my life, but it's been difficult. The report will have its embarrassing secti...
HENRY CISNEROS

No one, I'm sure, wants to be perceived as leaving a city in its hardest moment. How that will bear ...
HENRY CISNEROS

I think we'll fill it up.
HENRY CISNEROS

I accept responsibility for the conduct as outlined, ... truth and candor are important.
HENRY CISNEROS

(With) a direct route from a U.S. hub to China, it would just open up a huge pathway to sell our pro...
MARK CISNEROS

I am thrilled to be honored by MIPCOM. It is especially gratifying to be recognized for contribution...
GUSTAVO CISNEROS

Our dream was if the kids had computers at home, they could continue learning outside their classroo...
GEORGE CISNEROS

Much of our motivation is based on the fact that so much of governmental services and commercial ser...
GEORGE CISNEROS

This is not a critique, ... but just a recognition that as strong as we think our biotechnology and ...
HENRY CISNEROS

It's like our moment has arrived. San Antonio seems to have hit the big leagues.
HENRY CISNEROS

Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgi...
SANDRA LEE

No one has ever bought me underwear, and I'm a little bummed about that. Maybe it's not such...
SANDRA BULLOCK

When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all d...
SANDRA LERNER

I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look...
SANDRA OH

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. . ...
SANDRA CAREY

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
SANDRA CAREY

As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to...
SANDRA BOYNTON

Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider c...
SANDRA BOYNTON

The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have...
SANDRA BULLOCK

If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.
SANDRA BERNHARD

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
SANDRA CAREY

Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and oth...
SANDRA FLUKE

With small breasts, you don't have to wear a bra with dresses that have some support. It feels s...
SANDRA OH

The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.
SANDRA BULLOCK

Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I'll have one spice that's fo...
SANDRA LEE

Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very...
SANDRA LEE

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It's fun whether it's baking bread o...
SANDRA LEE

Free is the best. Anything free is good.
SANDRA BULLOCK

Smart is what you learn from others.
Wise is what you learn from yourself.
SANDRA SWARTZ

Yes, I love white, and I'd wear it all the time if I could. Some people think I have an issue wi...
SANDRA LEE

Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking thin...
SANDRA BULLOCK

If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their he...
SANDRA BULLOCK

I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad gir...
SANDRA BULLOCK

Like herbs in a pestle, life steadily ground out the essence of those who did not have access to com...
SANDRA BYRD

I've come back for you, my love, my life. Let me look at you, keep you, never let go of you.
SANDRA BYRD

You should see my house. It's sort of explosive. Like a crazy person lives there.
SANDRA OH

Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of ...
SANDRA BULLOCK

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the wa...
SANDRA BULLOCK

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. W...
SANDRA BULLOCK

I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a c...
SANDRA BULLOCK

I find that with some girls, the words 'work' and 'education' have gotten a bad rap.
SANDRA BULLOCK

I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.
SANDRA BULLOCK

If you look at any of the big companies, whether it is IBM or L'Oreal, they have a corporate rel...
SANDRA LERNER

My audience knows me, and I wear beautiful clothes as a badge of honor. They remember where I came f...
SANDRA LEE

The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate.
SANDRA BOYNTON

For all those who longed to find a best friend and found it in themselves
SANDRA KRING

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no plac...
SANDRA BULLOCK

When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just b...
SANDRA BERNHARD

Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to star...
SANDRA BULLOCK

As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.
SANDRA LEE

I love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is marshmallow fluff.
SANDRA BULLOCK

At this point in my life I am just about enjoying my free time and my downtime and that's what i...
SANDRA LEE

Everything in large doses is gonna kill you. Even happiness.
SANDRA BULLOCK

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.
SANDRA BULLOCK

In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my p...
SANDRA OH

Give your child quality time. If you're going to be with him for two hours, then disconnect from...
SANDRA ECHEVERRIA

We are all deserving of love.
SANDRA BULLOCK

Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger...
SANDRA BULLOCK

Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts. You hav...
SANDRA BULLOCK

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended fam...
SANDRA BULLOCK

I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I g...
SANDRA BULLOCK

I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be...
SANDRA BULLOCK

There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women&#...
SANDRA BERNHARD

Paparazzi need more flattering lenses.
SANDRA BULLOCK

Raising myself and caring for my brothers and sisters allowed me the benefit of a lot of information...
SANDRA LEE

I know when I'm getting ready to mess up, I'm going to do it full-on.
SANDRA BULLOCK

I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.
SANDRA BERNHARD

I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, ...
SANDRA OH

The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'O...
SANDRA OH

Getting into television was a total fluke.
SANDRA BULLOCK

Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing.
SANDRA BULLOCK

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candl...
SANDRA LEE

I don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permane...
SANDRA BULLOCK

Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn...
SANDRA LEE

I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do ...
SANDRA BULLOCK

A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how li...
SANDRA BERNHARD

When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for n...
SANDRA LEE

I'm the only girl on The Food Network who grills - I have two bestselling grilling books. I try ...
SANDRA LEE

We wanted to develop condom packaging that was noticeable and memorable so that we can later track t...
SANDRA MULLIN

I'll do anything for free stuff.
SANDRA BULLOCK

Personal branding is actively managing your image and defining your unique value.
SANDRA LONG

Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scru...
SANDRA LEE

Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate.
SANDRA BOYNTON

the sounds of the words are music in a way.
SANDRA BOYNTON

When I have said "If Only", I realised what precious a moment have slipped away.
SANDRA AMARTEY

There's so many different ways to cheat. People think infidelity is the way to cheat. I think it...
SANDRA BULLOCK

Ironing is comfort. It's control. I'm a nutty person who likes to make sure everything is in...
SANDRA BULLOCK

I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.
SANDRA BERNHARD

I love my hair. When I was young it had weird kinks and cowlicks in it, but I just grew into it. You...
SANDRA OH

Leaving my house and getting on to a red carpet is always crazy for me, because you have to find a w...
SANDRA BULLOCK

I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in C...
SANDRA OH

I farm - there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I ...
SANDRA LERNER

Wherever Koreans are, they set up a church.
SANDRA OH

We consider it the only remaining tourist-railroad hotel in the region. It seems imminent to me that...
SANDRA WILSON

When we see a possible discrepancy, we need to investigate to make sure the taxpayers are not paying...
SANDRA KING

Tampa had a great game plan, but we stuck to ours and in the end our defensive intensity was enough....
SANDRA RUSHING

The judge is the daughter of the judge that wrongfully convicted Rodney. And, I feel personally, tha...
SANDRA REED

There always seems to be someone looking over your shoulder - just waiting for an opportunity to lec...
SANDRA BOYNTON

Lemons clean everything. It's the greatest disinfectant.
SANDRA BULLOCK

I like the energy of live performance.
SANDRA BERNHARD

Makeup is scary. When I do it myself, it's just mascara, and sometimes I forget even to do that.
SANDRA BULLOCK

Nobody can make me cry in public. I'll punch them first before they make my mascara smear.
SANDRA BULLOCK

People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up....
SANDRA OH

I like lists, I'm controlling, I like order. I'm difficult on every level.
SANDRA BULLOCK

We cannot physically be there to help our fellow nurses so we offer this Labor Day 'Labor of Love' c...
SANDRA TAYLOR

A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're...
SANDRA OH

My aunt looked like Lucille Ball, and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was in...
SANDRA LERNER

It's a high number, but it's not worrisome. February is a month when seasonal factors tend to have a...
SANDRA UTSUMI

They're a very fundamentally sound team and an extremely good shooting team from 3-point range. They...
SANDRA RUSHING

Switch every 30 minutes. I sometimes put a rock or something to show where I am quitting the weeding...
SANDRA MASON

Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faste...
SANDRA BULLOCK

He's a great friend and a great support. He's fantastic, ... And he takes a blinkingly good picture....
SANDRA BULLOCK

[Next week:] Crash ... Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
SANDRA BULLOCK

I really like Hugh, but I'm just not ready to have sex yet. We've held hands and kissed a couple of ...
SANDRA BULLOCK

If you went to go see 'Why You Were Sleeping' or anything else, you wouldn't necessarily think that'...
SANDRA BULLOCK

The last time I was here I fell into the premiere, and I figured I had to redeem myself, ... I thoug...
SANDRA BULLOCK

I just want to go do this thing and go home.
SANDRA BULLOCK

Everybody has a different view of the word "forever". Find the one whose forever means the same as y...
SANDRA FUCHS

Everybody wants to win at the Garden. The place was packed. It was a huge thrill.
SANDRA D'ANDREA

I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's...
SANDRA BERNHARD

No one has proof that I know of, that a higher power exists, yet a major portion of the world believ...
SANDRA BULLOCK

I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand...
SANDRA BULLOCK

Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.
SANDRA DEE

People came to my parents' parties because they were going to have fun and, if lucky, our mother...
SANDRA BULLOCK

I am angry all the time,
SANDRA BULLOCK

Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but its the middle that counts. You have...
SANDRA BULLOCK

You doan go diggin' for gold in an outhouse.
SANDRA HILL

The Scottish Executive would be more honest if they'd given Tom Shaw a white stick anda guide dog, t...
SANDRA BROWN

One of the things I do in my cookbooks is I will do a conversion from outdoor to indoor grilling so ...
SANDRA LEE

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.
SANDRA BULLOCK

The best investment a woman can make is to get married to a wealthy man and not have a career at all...
SANDRA DAVIS

She usually knew what was on the marker.
SANDRA SANCHEZ

It was a great way to start retirement.
SANDRA DIALS

Times like this were special. Memory builders. When something extraordinary happened to a person the...
SANDRA HILL

The effects of abuse are devastating and far-reaching, ... With this investment, we're not just prov...
SANDRA PUPATELLO

Rather than standing or speaking for children, we need to stand with children speaking for themselve...
SANDRA MEUCCI

I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have ...
SANDRA BERNHARD

Every new day crowns us with new beginnings and glorious possibilities. Be sure to make every moment...
SANDRA LUGO

My mainstay was working in a private hotel as a waitress, washer upper and occasionally a cook.
SANDRA SMITH

One hundred less calories and 2,000 steps is very reasonable. It's not like going on a diet. It migh...
SANDRA PARKER

I think the roads really need to be fixed.
SANDRA CAREY

Over the twenty two years that I have lived here, I have watched forestry operations open the canopy...
SANDRA TAYLOR

Be a froot loop in a world full of cheerios :)
SANDRA R

I didn't know Bacardi should be mixed with anything so I just drank it straight. My mom took me to h...
SANDRA BULLOCK

Certain gloves can improve your grip.
SANDRA MASON

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

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My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

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