Quotes by Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa

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

Writing

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

Reacting

Reactions

An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are more direct, more immediate than words, and closer to the unconscious. Picture language precedes thinking in words; the metaphorical mind precedes analytical consciousness.

Bridges

Mind

Thinking

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

Book

Firsts

Taught

But I’m more scared of not writing.

Autonomy

Scared

Writing

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

Giving

Order

Writing

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.

Challenges

Depression

Life

Do work that matters. Vale la pena

Matter

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

Boys

Girl

Waiting

I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkness and a creature of light, but also a creature that questions the definitions of light and dark and gives them new meanings.

Dark

Giving

Light

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Alchemy

Animal

Artist

Ashes

Autonomy

Blind Spots

Book

Boys

Bridges

Buried

Challenges

Change

Choices

Complacency

Country

Crossroads

Cutting

Dark

Depression

Dignity

Diversity

Dream

Eye

Faces

Fashion

Fire

Firsts

Girl

Giving

Hands

Home

Inspirational

Integrity

Jobs

Justice

Kissing

Kitchen

Land

Life

Light

Live Life

Mad

Madness

Matter

May

Mexican Border

Mind

My Own

Order

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Quotes by Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria E. Anzaldúa

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

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

An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are more direct, more immediate than words, and closer to the unconscious. Picture language precedes thinking in words; the metaphorical mind precedes analytical consciousness.

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

But I’m more scared of not writing.

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

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.

Do work that matters. Vale la pena

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

I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkness and a creature of light, but also a creature that questions the definitions of light and dark and gives them new meanings.

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