To separate from my culture (as from my family) I had to feel competent enough on the outside and secure enough inside to live life on my own. Yet in…

- Gloria E. Anzaldúa

The struggle is inner: Chicano, indio, American Indian, mojado, mexicano, immigrant Latino, Anglo in power, working class Anglo, Black, Asian--our ps…

- Gloria E. Anzaldúa

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 "ali…

- Gloria E. Anzaldúa

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

- Gloria E. Anzaldúa

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.

- Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill and torch. Write wi…

- Gloria E. Anzaldúa

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

- Gloria E. Anzaldúa

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

- Gloria E. Anzaldúa

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 strengt…

- Gloria E. Anzaldúa