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I know there are a lot of women who are afraid of driving on highways.
Sandra Cisneros
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Sandra Cisneros
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 20
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This is the age of fear and so many of us feel afraid to speak out about what has happened to our lives in the wake of 9/11. Television promotes the world as a scary place for the United States and this justifies peeling away every element of privacy we had before. The media is monopolized so we don't even hear a lot of dissent about this new era.
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My mom was a frustrated woman, like so many unhappy women who didn't get the opportunities they wanted.
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Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry.
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I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.
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Even if you don't believe in God, you have to believe in love.
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