18 quotes
"Your body is only a vessel. Your essence is inviolate. It is only when you give up your soul that you are lost."
A Woman of Endurance (2022)
In a world where families are suddenly and inexplicably separated, where life and death can come at any time, the community holds continuity and safety.
with Reading Women Podcast (2021)
She moved by rote, dragging her grief into the fields with her. (chapter 12 p149)
A Woman of Endurance (2022)
They take her in, questions hanging from their eyes. (chapter 16, p211)
A Woman of Endurance (2022)
My writing begins with dreaming, journaling and meditation.
with Reading Women Podcast (2021)
“Remember the time before the hurting, for that’s where the healing lives. Find the joy of the before and know you can find it again. You have a big heart and there are many paths to healing.”
A Woman of Endurance (2022)
The babble that rose around them as they stood on the pier was deafening. It sounded like no speech Pola had ever heard, the words, jagged, grating sounds that attacked the ear.
A Woman of Endurance (2022)
If fiction gave me the freedom to create on a grand scale, meditation gave me a compass to navigate my story.
In Latina Authors and Their Muses (2015)
Remember to open your heart. Learn to recognize gifts offered on your journey. (chapter 25 p325)
A Woman of Endurance (2022)
“When are you going to see that the only way we can carry our burdens is to share them?” (p310)
A Woman of Endurance (2022)
Don’t forget that the artist still has to be a woman. Nourish them both. (p317)
Daughters of the Stone (2009)
(Writing motto:) "You'll never know what happened in the hunt until the lion's story."
In Latina Authors and Their Muses (2015)
She knows for certain that the poisonous barb of humiliation has done much more damage than the lash ever did. (p277)
A Woman of Endurance (2022)
Working the knots has taught me something: to wait is not to waste time; to wait is to take time to see, to listen, to unfold and untangle what has come before. (chapter 10 p120)
A Woman of Endurance (2022)
I want you to soar. I want you to go out and find your path and create your own story. (p321)
Daughters of the Stone (2009)
I really believe there are no coincidences. I have learned to trust intuition and watch for the paths that open in my journey.
In Latina Authors and Their Muses (2015)
Like a primeval wave, these stories have carried me, and deposited me on the morning of today. They are the stories of how I came to be who I am, where I am. (p14)
Daughters of the Stone (2009)
My intent was, and continues to be, giving face and voice to a community that has been, at worst, silenced or, at best, ignored. Recent episodes in our history make that erasure crystal clear.
with The Center for Puerto Rican Studies (2017)