"What I like about Chicana writers like Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherrie Moraga, and others is that they have very important things to say. They have a vision, a feminist vision."
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Mary Helen Ponce interview in Chicana Ways by Karin Rosa Ikas (2002)
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