I was so happy when I went to Rome and I saw that the Romans eat them too, the squash blossoms. [...] No wonder I like the Italians!

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.

Superheroes allow their capes to hang off their backs; but our Superwomen choose to wrap them around their heads.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Here is a fine field for talent.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school and that's very clear.

The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me.

[T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.

There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

In this room,in this minite,she was his everything

Fine, but I’m not ripping the head off a voodoo chicken or drinking anything disgusting. (Grace)