Women have no beginning only continual flows. Though rivers flow women are not rivers. Women are not roses they are not oceans or stars. I would like to tell her this but I think she already knows. – Ana Castillo Women Are Not Roses
I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable? – Ana Castillo
I’ve spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting. – Ana Castillo
I’m concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker. – Ana Castillo
There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man. – Ana Castillo
I’m obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I’m not looked at as an American. – Ana Castillo
For things to have value in man’s world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man’s oldest and most constant commodity is woman. – Ana Castillo
