"Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety."

Family, Childhood, Memory, Safety

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"Big Brother is watching you."

George Orwell, British Author

Family, Brother

"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Give, Up, Believe

"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Family, Children, Clothes

"Blessed is the womb that born you."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Blessed, Womb, Birth, Mother

"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."

Richelle Mead, American Author

Family, Partnership, Decision, Teamwork

"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Family, Ideal, Relationship, Life

"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Father, Speak, Hear, Trust

"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Family, Nostalgia, Memory, Comfort, Love

"Children are angels."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Children, Angels, Blessing, Divine

"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Family, Rules, Rebellion, Youth, Identity

Explore more quotes by Sandra Cisneros

"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, Mother, People, Name, School

"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, Limitations, Needs, Privacy

"My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men."

Life, Men, Being, Feminism

"Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within."

Peace, Clarity, Revenge, Violence

"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, Time, Character, Writing

"Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety."

Family, Childhood, Memory, Safety

"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, Family, Heart, Ability, Community

"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, People, Buddhism, Buddhist

"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, Now, Public, Trying