Top 1200 Latina Women Quotes & Sayings

There is no 'generic' Latina.

I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I'm born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don't speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker.

The industry just hasn't been thinking outside the box when it comes to Latina women.

I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.

The women I love most are Latina - my sister, mother, and daughter. They're spontaneous but spend a majority of their time trying to make others happy.

I often hear things like, 'You don't look Latina enough,' and that mentality is so backwards. The fact is, I am Latina, so how are you going to tell me that I don't look Latina?

I want to steer away from the stereotypes that Latina women are categorized in. I feel like there are so many more opportunities for us. I like going out for those roles that says 'open ethnicity.'

Myy mom is the woman who inspires me the most. She's Latina. She's definitely my Latina inspiration.

Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.

I've always been a real stubborn Latina. I'm a Gemini.

What's surprising to me now is that now that I'm talking to a lot of women about this, so many women are doing this. Straight women, lesbian women, bisexual women, poor women, White women, immigrant women. This does not affect one group.

[Producers] promised me they wouldn't do that sort of "defining nature of my character is that Laurel is Latina [in How to Get Away with Murder] ." It has nothing to do with that. She just happens to be a Latina.

My sons are black, and my daughter is Latina.

'Latina' has become part of the Becky G family, and I feel very proud to say that.

The characters that I want to play are interesting women. I don't care if they're good women or bad women or vulnerable women or women with a lot of faults or women that we dislike intensely who are malicious.

When people see a Spanish last name, they have an image in their head of what the typical Latina looks like. I think it's important on television to have different representations of people. And I'm so proud of being Latina. I love it.

The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.

We don't have Latina heroines in theaters; I haven't seen Marvel doing it.

I've always loved to sing in Spanish. To me, it's just my culture. It's what I am; I'm Latina.

There's a spirit of Latina women in all of my work, in the love of the body and the strong sense of self.

My creativity for making women feel beautiful is one of the reasons I love being Latina. Just making people feel more attractive was always a goal of mine; the creativity - I think it has a lot to do with my culture as well.

Being Latina to me is living your life like it's a big old fiesta!

On average, African-American women are 4 times as likely to die from pregnancy related complications. Latina women are at 2 times greater risk.

I'd like to see a world where there are so many Latina women leaders - and women of all different backgrounds - in the top jobs around the country. When that happens, we've succeeded.

When I first came out to L.A., Hollywoods idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.

I embrace my Latina background because I know that by doing so we will continue to break down stereotypes that may exist of Latina women.

I know Becky G, Natti Natasha, and other Latina singers, we have been working many, many years and now we have the opportunity to show what we have, to show what we have been doing for many years. Great things are happening for women in the Latin music industry.

It is difficult to get Latina and Asian women to speak out. We must make it clear it's not their problem, it's our problem. We need magazines like this one to keep talking about the issue. And know that we women in Congress are with you 100 percent.

To not see black or Latina women as famous in my industry is crazy! I have to talk about it.

To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.

I'm so proud to be a Latina. Growing up and being Latina and growing up with my father and getting to do a lot of the Hispanic traditions, I loved it.

I have to represent. I feel proud to have a culture that's different and proud to be a Latina. We're not all categorized as one type of person there's people from everywhere doing different things who have different types of cultures. Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.

I come from a long line of tellers: mesemondok, old Hungarian women who tell while sitting on wooden chairs with their plastic pocketbooks on their laps, their knees apart, their skirts touching the ground... and cuentistas, old Latina women who stand, robust of breast, hips wide, and cry out the story ranchera style. Both clans storytell in the plain voice of women who have lived blood and babies, bread and bones. For them, story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.

I have to represent. I feel proud to have a culture that's different... and proud to be a Latina. We're not all categorized as one type of person... there's people from everywhere doing different things who have different types of cultures. Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

The difficulty of being Afro-Latina, in general, is the lack of acceptance in both communities.

I don't think I have rebelled against Latina culture. I have rebelled against those who try to make me warm tortillas for my brothers when they can warm them for themselves, I have rebelled against a patriarchal religion. I rebel against small mindedness in all ways and in every situation but those things are not an intrinsic part of Latina culture and I will fight tooth and nail against anyone who tries to make me feel like I'm less Xicana for not embracing the small-mindedness.

I was always typecast as a Latina.

I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.

I'm an actress, and I am Latina.

I'd like to see more beauty campaigns for girls who are mixed Latina and black.

You don't grow up in a Latina household where everyone is curvy thinking that you can be a model. That's just not normal.

For me, the best part of being Latina in the WWE is the feistiness I can bring to the ring.

Sarah Palin is Latina. Pay-leen. She has an infant and a grandkid the same age. Latina!

I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American.

When I first came out to L.A., Hollywood's idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.

People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

If a Latina falls in love with someone who is insecure, it can be a nightmare.

Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women, clever women and stupid women, honest women and women who betray. I'm hoping that, by living inside their skins while he hears their stories, he'll understand over time that women are not all this way or that way. I'm hoping he'll look at women as he does at men-that you must judge each of us on her own merits, and not condemn us or exalt us only because we belong to a particular sex.

They say Latina women are spicy. But we are more than that. We have power, and we run things.

Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

I'm a Latina. Everything is outspoken in my culture.

I want to steer away from the stereotypes that Latina women are categorized in. I feel like there are so many more opportunities for us. I like going out for those roles that says open ethnicity.

There are plenty of Latina actresses that no one's ever heard of... Some are really brown, some are light-skinned, and some look like they're Caucasian, but it's like we only want to identify with a certain kind of look and celebrate that under the guise that this is a 'Latina actress.'

That one time I had ma Latina texture going on.. Or just.. everyday.

No Latina woman would be called 'Ms.' - that's an invention of middle-class Anglo women. Latina women are proud to be called 'Mrs.' That simply means that we have a family.

Latina women are proud to be called Mrs. That simply means that we have a family.

I'm a Latina from Miami. I pity you if you think you're going out-shout me.

I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I’m born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don’t speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker

I would like to do more millennial, Latina, complicated stories.