Ana Castillo
Ana Castillo
Ana Castillois a Mexican-American Chicana novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, editor, playwright, translator and independent scholar. Considered one of the leading voices in Chicana experience, Castillo is known for her experimental style as a Latina novelist. Her works offer pungent and passionate socio-political comment that is based on established oral and literary traditions. Castillo's interest in race and gender issues can be traced throughout her writing career. Her novel Sapogonia was a New York Times Notable Book of the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 June 1953
CountryUnited States of America
There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive. It’s almost like we’re mad because we’ve been shocked out of our usual comatose state of being by feeling something for someone, for ourselves, for just a moment.
I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type.
The man you love cooking for you is good for you too.
According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom they feel they can order and humiliate, usually women, children, and animals--just as they have been ordered and humiliated by those privileged few who are in power. However, this definition does not explain why there are privileged men who behave this way toward women.
We live in a polarized world of contrived dualisms, dichotomies and paradoxes: light vs. dark and good vs. evil. We as Mexic Amerindians/mestizas are the dark. We are the evilor at least, the questionable.
Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.
something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil...
Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies ...
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.
In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species. Abortion was not a fancy borne out of the female mind. Abortion was instinct beyond ideas. Abortion was fear (the cat that devours its litter when a predator nears).
Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.
Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.
my Mamá Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't make a bit of sense to my young and inattentive ears, and as young people tend to waste all attempts of our elders to relay to us wisdom accumulated over the decades, I thought my Mamá Grande had a few mice in the attic.
Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.