Gloria Anzaldua Quotes
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I don't remember what it's like to care enough about life that the thought of death could destroy me
— Colleen Hoover
How quickly the mighty fall.
— Sara Raasch
I change myself, I change the world.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
The world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
But I'm more scared of not writing.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969.
— Elliott Abrams
Though we tremble before uncertain futuresmay we meet illness, death and adversity with strength
may we dance in the face of our fears.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
I can't seem to stay out of my own way.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
These my two hands / quick to slap my face / before others could slap it.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
Happiness is a hardy annual.
— Ellen Glasgow
The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
This land was Mexican once,was Indian always
and is.
And will be again. — Gloria E. Anzaldua
Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
All reaction is limited by, and dependant on, what it is reacting against.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
Depression is useful. It signals that you need to make changes in your life, it challenges your tendency to withdraw, it reminds you to take action.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
As a lesbian I have no face, my own people disclaim me; but I am all races because there is the queer of me in all races.
— Gloria Anzaldua
I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
Our veterans deserve the very best, and that means ensuring that America's veterans receive high-quality services and cares when they come back home.
— Elizabeth Warren
Disordered house, disordered mind, disordered life,
— Kristen Ashley
Her heartbeat felt like horse's hooves trampling her chest.
— Marissa Meyer
I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails ...
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
Do work that matters. Vale la pena
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
Sow into the gift and talent God has given to you to rip an harvest
— Sunday Adelaja
By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
To survive the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras be a crossroads.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar. (Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.) — Gloria E. Anzaldua
I am mad - but I choose this madness.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the job or during meals.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
You have a laugh line; don't accentuate it. You get a bigger laugh.
— Dick Van Patten