It's so good for your health to take those naps. I don't know why people brag that they sleep five hours. I'd be ashamed. I'm proud that I sleep nine hours.

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.

If you're using most of your energy to do stuff for your kids, then you'll have that much less energy to just be there for them.

I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation

I think chemistry is finding something you love about a person and then transfering it to an in love kind of thing.

... it's simply wrong to always order [kids] to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting.

The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper images of the garbage.

The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.

I had a dream I could buy my way to heaven, when I awoke, I spent that on a NECKLACE.

I have an underdog spirit in me, and now it feels weird to kind of get my own way more often than not.

I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.