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You don't have to be the specialist on everything. You can try to inform yourself.
Sandra Cisneros
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Sandra Cisneros
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 20
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We women shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.
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You'll change. You'll see. Wait till you meet Mr. Right.
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If you're going to write about the river, you've got to get in.
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By community I mean that community you have a special vision for, that only you see, that no one else in a room sees. That special community in pain, that through a pain you've suffered, you're able to have that vision, that super-ray vision.
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My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.
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I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.
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The TSA tears through your bags at the airport and the NSA watches what books you buy and what you say over the telephone and online. It doesn't feel like anything is private anymore.
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I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.
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