I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and dont give them a lot of credence.
I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The art of British Columbia's native Indians played a big role in inspiring my creativity. . . the simplicity of the images, the graciousness of the lines and curves, and the emotional impact of the bright simple primary colours.
Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response
Let us green the earth, restore the earth, heal the earth.
Life is a process of becoming. A combination of states we have to go through.