Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness.… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter’s tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me,… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I take a few quick sips. "This is really good." And I mean it. I have never tasted tea like this. It… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?... I imagined two people without words, unable to… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
How I saw in her my own true nature. What was beneath my skin. Inside my bones... Even though I was young,… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the… — Amy Tan Copy Share
Shanghainese people are good negotiators, they're very persistent, and you grow up in an atmosphere like that - very competitive. That becomes part of… — Amy Tan Copy Share
But now that I am old, moving every year closer to the end of my life, I also feel closer to the beginning. And… — Amy Tan Copy Share
You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again. — Amy Tan Copy Share
Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your… — Amy Tan Copy Share
We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become different in… — Amy Tan Copy Share
When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still… — Amy Tan Copy Share
“I am ashamed she is ashamed. Because she is my daughter and I am proud of her, and I am her mother but she… — Amy Tan Copy Share
