My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

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.

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

My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.

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

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.

People know when you're speaking from el corazón. You have that pain. Take that pain and do something with it. That's very powerful.

The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

You don't want somebody who doesn't know his own heart, do you? You'll find someone who's brave enough to love you. Someday. One day. Not today.

There is a difference between a church that prays and a praying church. One has prayer programs. The other develops a prayer culture.

You will find the limit of strength with every new situation.

Cosmopolitanism emphasizes and is grounded in a _singular relationality between and among people

Imagine trying to live without air.Now imagine something worse.

I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as a director.

One loving thought can change everything.

Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.

I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T, teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.

'Family Guy''s got a strong fanbase, man, like no other. It's great. Everywhere around the world, it's pretty amazing. It's amazing that people love 'Family Guy' as much as they do. It's great.

The fact is that you can't have a good relationship with a girl who hasn't settled things with her father.