On writing
"The danger in writing is not fusing our personal experience and world view with the social reality we live in, with our inner life, our history, our economics, and our vision. What validates us as human beings validates us as writers. What matters to us is the relationships that are important to us whether with our self or with others. We must use what is important to us to get us to the writing. No topic is too trivial. The danger is in being too universal and humanitarian and invoking the eternal to the sacrifice of the particular and the feminine and the specific historical moment.
Your skin must be sensitive enough for the lightest kiss and thick enough to ward off the sneers. If you are going to spit into the eye of the world, make sure your back is to the wind. Write of what most links us with life, the sensation of the body, the images seen of the eye, the expansion of the psyche in tranquility: moments of high intensity, its movements, sounds, thoughts."
Gloria Anzaldua
Your skin must be sensitive enough for the lightest kiss and thick enough to ward off the sneers. If you are going to spit into the eye of the world, make sure your back is to the wind. Write of what most links us with life, the sensation of the body, the images seen of the eye, the expansion of the psyche in tranquility: moments of high intensity, its movements, sounds, thoughts."
Gloria Anzaldua