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Hey, you know who I feel bad for? Arab-Americans who truly want to get into crop dusting.

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One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that leader is the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh's Being Peace. He's a Vietnamese monk. He was nominated for a Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King.

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It takes a long time for women to feel it's alright to be chingona. To aspire to be a chingona!. . . You are saying, 'This is my camino, this is my path and I'm gonna follow it, regardless of what culture says. ' I don't think the church likes chingonas. I don't think the state likes chingonas. ! And fathers definitely do not like chingonas. And boyfriends don't like chingonas. But, you know, I remain optimistic. I will meet a man who likes a chingona, one day. One day, my chingon will come.

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I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less.

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We need to write because so many of our stories are not being heard. Where could they be heard in this era of fear and media monopolies? Writing allows us to transform what has happened to us and to fight back against what's hurting us. While not everyone is an author, everyone is a writer and I think that the process of writing is deeply spiritual and liberatory.

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I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.

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You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.

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