Ana Castillo Quotes

A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yourself a good lover won't see it either.

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?

Our goal should be to achieve joy

Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. The important things.

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.

What you perceive as "liberal" is my independence to choose what i do, with whom, and when. Moreover, it also means that i may choose not to do it, with anyone, ever.

To all the women and the men who ever loved me just a little.

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.

Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.

Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.

Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.

Something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil.

The man you love cooking for you is good for you too.

Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.

Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies.

I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type.

People like to think of themselves as purists, but there is no such thing as purity, when there exists so much contact.

I definitely do see language serving its users, and when it no longer serves them we need to look for new words.

something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil...

Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart.The important things.