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My aunt looked like Lucille Ball, and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her.


Sandra Lerner

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SANDRA CISNEROS In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even...
SANDRA CISNEROS When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just b...
SANDRA BERNHARD Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to star...
SANDRA BULLOCK I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are th...
SANDRA CISNEROS As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.
SANDRA LEE I love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is marshmallow fluff.
SANDRA BULLOCK At this point in my life I am just about enjoying my free time and my downtime and that's what i...
SANDRA LEE Everything in large doses is gonna kill you. Even happiness.
SANDRA BULLOCK As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.
SANDRA BULLOCK In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my p...
SANDRA OH Give your child quality time. If you're going to be with him for two hours, then disconnect from...
SANDRA ECHEVERRIA I think that Mexican-American kids live in a global world. It's not even bi-, it's multi-. Y...
SANDRA CISNEROS We are all deserving of love.
SANDRA BULLOCK I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor ...
SANDRA CISNEROS Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger...
SANDRA BULLOCK Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts. You hav...
SANDRA BULLOCK You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended fam...
SANDRA BULLOCK I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I g...
SANDRA BULLOCK I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don'...
SANDRA CISNEROS I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me a...
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