“I write to record what others erase when I speak,” Gloria Anzaldúa 
“Writing is dangerous because we are afraid of what the writing reveals: the fears, the angers, the strengths of a woman under a triple or quadruple oppression,” Gloria Anzaldúa
“Yet in that very act lies our survival because a woman who writes has power. And a woman with power is feared...I have never seen so much power in the ability to move and transform others as from that of the writing of women of color,” Gloria Anzaldúa, 1980.
“...a woman who writes has power. And a woman with power is feared...” Gloria Anzaldúa
Read more from Chicana feminist and lesbian author Gloria Anzaldúa
“Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?”
- Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
- Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"...I will not glorify those aspects of my culture which injured me and which have injured me in the name of protecting me.”
- Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
- Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
