Quotes About Latinas

#1. I especially want to change the way we as Latinas see our beauty. I feel that there is a misinterpretation of what we're supposed to look like.

Genesis Rodriguez

#2. I want our young Latinos and Latinas to write their hearts out and express their hearts out and let us all listen to each other.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#3. Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.

Grace Napolitano

#4. Because of their low earnings and family obligations, Latinas would not be putting much money into private investment accounts. An average Latina could wind up losing thousands of dollars under this proposal.

Grace Napolitano

#5. I'm very proud to be representing Latinas and women of color, young mothers and full-figured women. I just love that we're seeing different types of people on screen.

Dascha Polanco

#6. I happen to think Latinas, Latin women, are the most beautiful women in the world. So that's what I'm going to draw. I love women from all cultures, of course, but if I was going to deal with any of them, that would be No. 1 for me.

Gilbert Hernandez

#7. Latinas' life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiving her benefit check, she can expect to live another 22 years. That life expectancy is higher than white women or men.

Grace Napolitano

#8. Latinas who come to the U.S. should adapt, learn English and become a part of the community.

Carolina Herrera

#9. As Latinas, we tend to be overly partial considering stereotypes. I'm interested in being naughty and edgy.

Judy Reyes

#10. Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty.

Grace Napolitano

#11. Like most Latinas, I'm not afraid to speak my mind.

Cristina Saralegui

#12. She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.

Junot Diaz

#13. My advice for young Latinas interested in pursuing a career in Hollywood is to make sure you love to perform and make sure you get the training you need.

Maria Canals Barrera

#14. My mom brought me up by herself, so I was a latchkey kid. I would walk myself back from school and spent a lot of time at home alone, watching TV. There weren't a lot of Latinas - or any women of color. And the ones I saw were usually presented as stereotypes or treated like jokes.

Sara Ramirez

#15. I would hope more people would have optimism about where the Latino has come. How we have emerged, and that there will be more women, women of color especially Latinas who will get involved.

Hilda Solis

#16. My friend Mercedes Pena made me get in touch with my emotions just before I had a breast cut off. Just as I suspected, they were awful. "How do you Latinas do this all the time in touch with your emotions?" I asked her. "That's why we take siestas," she replied.

Molly Ivins

#17. I am Puerto Rican. I think Latinas are sexy, and being one, it has influenced a lot of my style, but being an official Los Angelite, this town has influenced most of my daily style, which is relaxed & easy.

Nadine Velazquez

#18. Latinas are the fastest growing segment of the minority population, and their perspective deserves to be represented, not denigrated.

Linda Sanchez

#19. I know I'm representing the Library of Congress, all the people of the United States and, of course, the Latinos and Latinas as well.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#20. People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

Zoe Saldana

#21. I am someone that is very hard to handle. I'm very picante, intense ... Sometimes I'm very outgoing and spontaneous and super hyper. Latinas, we love to touch each other - like, cuddle. That's why a lot of people are intimidated.

Lele Pons

#22. Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts all parties.

Stephen F. Lynch

#23. Slow and Study is boring.. Fast and Furious is Fun ... !!!

Abhijeet Sawant

#24. Global warming doesn't care what's in your bank account.
-Sinead Starling

Gordon Korman

#25. Nobody knows for sure how many ahoritas there are in a single ahora.

Yanko Tsvetkov

#26. Discretion is a polite word for hypocrisy.
Tea Party Teddy

Dianne Harman

#27. I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama.

Sonia Sanchez

#28. When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston Harbor, where he started, they had to keep it secret because there was such a mob of people expecting him, and they actually chased down his carriage at the hotel, the Parker House Hotel.

Matthew Pearl

#29. Never label anything 'Miscellaneous.'

Gretchen Rubin

#30. the Carnegie way of doing things: calculate the productivity of every worker and every machine, cut costs, maximize profits, then repeat

Paul Beck

#31. I wish that Christmas may be happy and heavenly, and the holidays glow with the gifts of the inner life that God will give to each one.

Janet Erskine Stuart