Mexican Woman Quotes

#1. I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

Salma Hayek

#2. I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman.

Sandra Cisneros

#3. At the time I was living with a Mexican woman and it looked as if the relationship would be the death of her, and me, and the neighbors, and sometimes even the people who ventured to pay us a visit.

Roberto Bolano

#4. Missing someone is a vague, unpleasant sensation, like gnawing anxiety. It isn't as concrete as grief, but it's just as pervasive and there's no escaping it.

Sue Grafton

#5. In transition? What kind of a Mexican mother are you?" "I'm an educated woman. That doesn't un-Mexicanize me, Ari.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#6. It's about purpose. About always coming back to being kind to another being instead of trying to get something from them.

Dakota Lane

#7. Becoming successful is a rough journey that carries pain and requires perseverance.

Auliq Ice

#8. When it comes to the acting stuff, I like to show up for a couple days and kind of be outrageous and silly, and go back to my day job.

Josh Groban

#9. In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

Jacques Ellul

#10. We need rest from the inexhaustible, from the mind. There is sleep-and meditation-and death.

Marty Rubin

#11. In spite of everything, I still have my good old sense of humor.

Sylvia Plath

#12. Sometimes falling flat on your face allows you to see things from a totally different perspective.

Linda Poindexter

#13. Even if you meet the perfect person, it ain't gonna be at the perfect time. You're married, they're single. That's right. You're Jewish, they're Palestinian. You're a Mexican, they're a raccoon. You're a black woman, he's a black man.

Chris Rock

#14. I want you, Elle," he said, voice low and rough. "It's a goddamn ache, I want you so much.

Jill Shalvis

#15. In other words, under Attorney General John Ashcroft, the FBI, the INS and the Department of Justice are so out of control that they have actually begun to enforce U.S. immigration laws.

Ann Coulter

#16. Relax, Salazar. I'm just messing around. Besides, I have my eye on somebody right now."
"Who?" Danielle and Colt said at the same time.
"That's on a need-to-know basis," Oz said, "and right now neither one of you needs to know.

Jon S. Lewis

#17. How much our society values its children can be measured by how well they are treated and protected.

Howard Markel