Ana Castillo famous quotes

03-24-2025

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.
-- Ana Castillo

#Lovers #Worthwhile #Good Lovers
Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.
-- Ana Castillo

#Sin #Without You #Violation
Our goal should be to achieve joy
-- Ana Castillo

#Goal #Joy #Achieve
my MamÃ¡ Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't make a bit of sense to my young and inattentive ears, and as young people tend to waste all attempts of our elders to relay to us wisdom accumulated over the decades, I thought my MamÃ¡ Grande had a few mice in the attic.
-- Ana Castillo

#People #Ears #Waste
In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species. Abortion was not a fancy borne out of the female mind. Abortion was instinct beyond ideas. Abortion was fear (the cat that devours its litter when a predator nears).
-- Ana Castillo

#Cat #Ideas #Self
Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.
-- Ana Castillo

#Mexico #Melancholy #Embrace
Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies ...
-- Ana Castillo

#Paris #Promise #Civilized
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.
-- Ana Castillo

#Chicago #Whole Life
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?
-- Ana Castillo

#White #Want #Brown
I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type.
-- Ana Castillo

#Artist #Office #Type
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.
-- Ana Castillo

#Men #Roles #World
Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.
-- Ana Castillo

#Men #Needs #Sexuality
I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.
-- Ana Castillo

#Parent #Citizens
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.
-- Ana Castillo

#Heart #Mind #Important
Thereâ€™s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that youâ€™re alive. Itâ€™s almost like weâ€™re mad because weâ€™ve been shocked out of our usual comatose state of being by feeling something for someone, for ourselves, for just a moment.
-- Ana Castillo

#Mad #Feelings #Usual
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.
-- Ana Castillo

#Mean #Independence #May
something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil...
-- Ana Castillo

#Lunch #Giving #Devil
To all the women and the men who ever loved me just a little.
-- Ana Castillo

#Men #Littles
Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.
-- Ana Castillo

#Encounters #Innocence #Transformation
The man you love cooking for you is good for you too.
-- Ana Castillo

#Men #Cooking #Cooking Love
Women Are Not Roses Women have no beginning only continual flows. Though rivers flow women are not rivers. Women are not roses they are not oceans or stars. i would like to tell her this but i think she already knows.
-- Ana Castillo

#Stars #Ocean #Thinking
Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.
-- Ana Castillo

#Littles #Poverty #Sun
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.
-- Ana Castillo

#Mother #Men #Spirituality

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