Ana Castillo
Born 1953
From Chicago, Illinois, United States · Nationality: United States · Writes fiction and nonfiction
Quotes
“A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there’s something you don’t like to see in yourself a good lover won’t see it either.”
Peel My Love Like an Onion 1999 “You say your city the way some Americans say this is their country. You never feel right saying that - my country. For some reason looking Mexican means you can’t be American.”
Peel My Love Like an Onion 1999 “We said nothing for several minutes. Our minds weighed like ripened fruit on the branch. When one is confronted by the mirror, the spirit trembles.”
The Mixquiahuala Letters “The road in either direction / is neither longer nor shorter, / nor more narrow nor wider / than the fear that closes your heart.”
I Ask The Impossible “I am a brown woman, from the Mexican side of town-torn between the Chicago obrero roots of my upbringing and my egocentric tendency toward creative expressions.”
Introduction
Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Books by Ana Castillo in order
Books by Ana Castillo in the order they were published, from The Invitation (1979) to Doña Cleanwell Leaves Home (2023).
- 1The InvitationThe Invitation1979
- 2Keats, Poe, and the shaping of Cortázar's mythopoesis
Keats, Poe, and the shaping of Cortázar's mythopoesis1981 - 3Women Are Not Roses
Women Are Not Roses1984 - 4The Mixquiahuala Letters
The Mixquiahuala Letters1986 - 5My Father Was a Toltec
My Father Was a Toltec1988 - 6Sapogonia
Sapogonia1990 - 7So Far from God
So Far from God1993 - 8Massacre of the Dreamers
Massacre of the Dreamers1994 - 9Goddess of the Americas
Goddess of the Americas1996 - 10Loverboys
Loverboys1996 - 11My Father Was a Toltec and Selected Poems
My Father Was a Toltec and Selected Poems1996 - 12Peel My Love Like an Onion
Peel My Love Like an Onion1999 - 13My Daughter, My Son, the Eagle the Dove
My Daughter, My Son, the Eagle the Dove2000 - 14I Ask the Impossible
I Ask the Impossible2001 - 15Psst-- I Have Something to Tell You, Mi AmorPsst-- I Have Something to Tell You, Mi Amor2005
- 16Watercolor Women, Opaque Men
Watercolor Women, Opaque Men2005 - 17The Guardians
The Guardians2007 - 18BocaditosBocaditos2009
- 19Give It To Me
Give It To Me2014 - 20Black Dove
Black Dove2016 - 21My Book of the Dead
My Book of the Dead2021 - 22Doña Cleanwell Leaves Home
Doña Cleanwell Leaves Home2023