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Gloria E. Anzaldua quotes: I change myself, I change the world.

I change myself, I change the world.

Gloria E. Anzaldua quotes: The world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.

The world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.

Gloria E. Anzaldua quotes: A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.

A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.

Gloria E. Anzaldua quotes: But I'm more scared of not writing.

But I'm more scared of not writing.

Gloria E. Anzaldua quotes: Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.

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 quotes: I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep

I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep

Gloria E. Anzaldua quotes: Though we tremble before uncertain futuresmay we meet illness, death and adversity with strengthmay we dance in the face of our fears.

Though we tremble before uncertain futures
may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength
may we dance in the face of our fears.

Gloria E. Anzaldua quotes: I am mad - but I choose this madness.

I am mad - but I choose this madness.

Gloria E. Anzaldua quotes: 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.

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 quotes: All reaction is limited by, and dependant on, what it is reacting against.

All reaction is limited by, and dependant on, what it is reacting against.

Gloria E. Anzaldua quotes: Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.

Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.

Gloria E. Anzaldua quotes: This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is.And will be again.

This land was Mexican once,
was Indian always
and is.
And will be again.

Gloria E. Anzaldua quotes: The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy.

The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy.

Gloria E. Anzaldua quotes: These my two hands / quick to slap my face / before others could slap it.

These my two hands / quick to slap my face / before others could slap it.

Gloria E. Anzaldua quotes: Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?

Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?

Gloria E. Anzaldua quotes: I can't seem to stay out of my own way.

I can't seem to stay out of my own way.

Gloria E. Anzaldua quotes: Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the job or during meals.

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 quotes: Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar. (Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.)

Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar.
(Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.)

Gloria E. Anzaldua quotes: To survive the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras be a crossroads.

To survive the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras be a crossroads.

Gloria E. Anzaldua quotes: By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.

By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.

Gloria E. Anzaldua quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out.

Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out.

Gloria E. Anzaldua quotes: Do work that matters. Vale la pena

Do work that matters. Vale la pena

Gloria E. Anzaldua quotes: Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution.

Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution.

Gloria E. Anzaldua quotes: 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 ...

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 ...