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The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

Sandra Cisneros
Fire, People, House
Sandra Cisneros (2015). “A House of My Own: Stories from My Life”, p.296, Vintage

You know that you wouldn't take a baby on a plane without diapers, so when you leave your house, take care of you, like you would a baby. Don't leave your house without packing some healthy things.

Sandra Cisneros
Baby, House, Healthy
"Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. September 28, 2006.

I realize that when I moved out of my father’s house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

Sandra Cisneros
Father, Space, House

Every single house has had death visit.

Sandra Cisneros
House
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I have to take care of the house, and the dogs, and the Macondo Board meetings, all those e-mails, the letters that are going to fans. And you've got to pay bills. These things eat up your time. You have to prepare and pack to go on that trip. Then when you come back you have to file all that stuff, answer all that mail, and that's not even washing the clothes or any of that. So it takes as many days as I've been away to come back to normal and to get quiet.

Sandra Cisneros
Dog, Clothes, House
"Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. September 28, 2006.

I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but it is a map of how this writer had to break many barriers to find, not a room of her own, but a house of her own.

Sandra Cisneros
Writing, House, Maps
"Sandra Cisneros looks back as a writer in search of home". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2015.

The house was immaculate, as always, not a stray hair anywhere, not a flake of dandruff or a crumpled towel. Even the roses on the dining-room table held their breath. A kind of airless cleanliness that always made me want to sneeze.

Sandra Cisneros
Hair, Rose, House
Sandra Cisneros (2007). “Vintage Cisneros”, p.52, Vintage

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