Gloria E. Anzaldúa Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

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

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Writing

• 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 with your tongues of fire. Don't let the pen banish you from yourself.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Writing, Eye, Fire

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

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Writing, Order, Giving

  "This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers)". Book edited by Gloria E. Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga, 1981.

• Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak English or Spanish when I would rather speak Spanglish, and as long as I have to accommodate the English speakers rather than having them accommodate me, my tongue will be illegitimate. I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. 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.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Writing, Speak English, Voice

• the world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Real, Writing, Giving

• Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Writing, Artist, Psychics

• The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Writing, Soul, Alchemy

• Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the job or during meals.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Jobs, Writing, Kitchen

• But I'm more scared of not writing.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Writing, Scared, Autonomy

• Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Writing, Choices, Complacency

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