My commentary's hilarious, not witty.
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.
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.
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.
I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.
You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.
If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.
For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
I always knew I wanted to be somebody. I think that's where it begins. People decide, "I want to be somebody. I want to make a contribution. I want to leave my mark here. " Then different factors contribute to how you will do that.
Be proud of yourself when you do keep going!