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"The greatest dilemma man has to face is figuring out what to do with his time."
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"There is a fire that burns in soul."
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"With the strength of grace, we can survive any situation."
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"Words are forces of life."
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"We are sustained by God's mighty power."
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"You ought to find all your might, to climb a higher height."
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"In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power."
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"You are the creator of your universe, and you are the destroyer of it too."
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"Rise in mighty strength and live your dream."
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"The world needs courage and conscience that can penetrate into the darkest mysteries and secrets of the universe."
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"I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog."
Family
"And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out."
Life
"I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom."
Power
"I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private."
Balance
"I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not."
Identity
"I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy."
Work
"My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men."
Life
"Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel."
Life
"Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it."
Learning
"I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart."
Friendship
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