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My mom was a frustrated woman, like so many unhappy women who didn't get the opportunities they wanted.

Sandra Cisneros

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Sandra Cisneros
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: December 20
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Essayist
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Chicago
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[Courage] always bigger than what you think you can handle, but you're never going to be given something you can't handle. So you say, Okay, when you tell me what it is that I'm supposed to do, please give me the courage to do it.
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You know that you wouldn't take a baby on a plane without diapers, so when you leave your house, take care of you, like you would a baby. Don't leave your house without packing some healthy things.
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When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I don't care what they're reading.
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I always have to have sweet and salty. I know some of you are going to say, Oh, I tried dates. I hate them. That's probably because you had the ones that were on the shelf for three years. Go to some healthy place and get the fresh ones, and you will just love them. You'll start eating them and think they're so good.
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When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.
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If you're going to write about the river, you've got to get in.
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I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me.
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Each book gets harder, each book gets harder and harder. I always feel like crying when I have to write.
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I live in a town that's two and a half hours from the border. I know people who have lived in San Antonio for generations, sometimes seven generations, their families are from there, and they are of Mexican descent, and they've never gone farther than the border.
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I've been on television saying, ¡Vamos a la biblioteca!. That was great. Nobody had ever asked me.
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