Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an "alien" element.

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

What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.

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

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

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 will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.

Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads

I am playing with my Self, I am playing with the world's soul, I am the dialogue between my Self and el espiritu del mundo. I change myself, I change the world.

I change myself, I change the world.

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

If you are willing to go out on a limb, the tree of life holds endless possibilities.

The inner being is a divine soul.

Don't ever let anyone tell you that fairy tales aren't real. I drink a potion made from magic beans every day, and it brings me back to life.

It's not at all new for wealthy and powerful interests to try to hide the ball and ignore independent analyses of relevant facts.

I work really hard - that doesn't mean I deserve anything, but it's really cool to see the positive reaction people give to something you worked so hard on. It's one of the best feelings.

And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.

Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?

YOU NEED BOTH QUALITY AND RESULTS. RESULTS WITHOUT QUALITY IS BORING; QUALITY WITHOUT RESULTS IS MEANINGLESS.

In fact, writing for younger adults is tougher. They remember everything and if they spot a problem, they'll be sure to let you know.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.