Gentleness is a divine trait: nothing is so divine as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength.
When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.
It takes a long time for women to feel it's alright to be chingona. To aspire to be a chingona!. . . You are saying, 'This is my camino, this is my path and I'm gonna follow it, regardless of what culture says. ' I don't think the church likes chingonas. I don't think the state likes chingonas. ! And fathers definitely do not like chingonas. And boyfriends don't like chingonas. But, you know, I remain optimistic. I will meet a man who likes a chingona, one day. One day, my chingon will come.
I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less.
We need to write because so many of our stories are not being heard. Where could they be heard in this era of fear and media monopolies? Writing allows us to transform what has happened to us and to fight back against what's hurting us. While not everyone is an author, everyone is a writer and I think that the process of writing is deeply spiritual and liberatory.
I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.
You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.
The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
I often had to run very quickly to be on time, and from being a fleet runner was generally successful; but when in doubt I prayed earnestly to God to help me, and I well remember that I attributed my success to the prayers and not to my quick running, and marvelled how generally I was aided.
Men are easily dealt with--but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know.
First of all we need to move past the euro.