"I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power."

-- Sandra Cisneros

#Writing Quotes #Giving Quotes #Latina Quotes

“There is one principle that should never be abandoned, namely, that the rider must learn to control himself before he can control his horse. This is the basic, most important principle to be preserved in equitation.”

Source : Alois Podhajsky (2013). “The Complete Training of Horse and Rider”, p.305, Doubleday
“War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.15, Vanderbilt University Press
“A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.”
“If it wasn't for my drama teacher, I wouldn't be here right now.”
“Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.”
“We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you... your connections are the thread that you weave into the cloth that becomes the story that only you can tell.”
“We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.”
“You don't have to know everything in the world. We aren't supposed to. It makes you boring in mixed company if you can't be interested and ask questions of other people.”

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