Sandra Cisneros: "Ketika saya di rumah, saya tidak malu. Saya adalah b...

"Ketika saya di rumah, saya tidak malu. Saya adalah badut di rumah, karena saya dicintai. Di dunia luarlah saya diadili dan saya tidak dicintai. Itu sangat jelas bagi saya, bahwa saya tidak dicintai. Jadi saya menjadi sangat diam. Anda tahu, gadis-gadis kecil yang Anda lihat di foto-foto itu terlihat seperti mereka ingin membungkuk, saya sedang mencoba menghilang ke dalam tulang belikat saya. Orang paling sunyi di kelas, itu aku. Tapi itu bukan aku di rumah."

--- Sandra Cisneros

Versi Bahasa Inggris

When I was at home, I wasn't shy. I was the clown at home, because I was loved. It was in the outside world that I was judged and I wasn't loved. That was very clear to me, that I wasn't loved. So I became very quiet. You know, those little girls you see in those pictures that look like they want to hunch, I was trying to disappear into my shoulder blades. The quietest person in the classroom, that was me. But that wasn't me at home.