“Oh I'm sure you're right," Auntie said. "Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“I knew even then that she was right. An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure this will make sense to you but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an accepted status — like geisha girls do — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
“When I was a nursemaid at the home of the landowners, a nun who happened to pass once gave me something square… — Sayo Masuda Copy Share Image
It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
'Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot. — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
“And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
This and the small sample size inevitably leads to stereotypes - sweeping family sagas from India, 'lush' colonial romances from South-East Asia.… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“I was hardly worthy of these surroundings. And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped about my body, and… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
