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
I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
My sisters and I stand, arms around each other, laughind and wiping the tears from each others eyes. The flash of the… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me. — 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
“And then I see my mother sitting by the open window, her dark silhouette against the night sky. She turns around in… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“This is how a daughter honors her mother. It is shou so deep it is in your bones. The pain of the… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“...A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place. She teaches you the nature of happiness: what is… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing about emotional… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Can I tell my daughter that I loved her father? This was the man who rubbed my feet at night. He praised… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Together we look like our mother. Her same eyes, her same mouth, open in surprise to see, at last, her long-cherished wish.” — 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
I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Lebih baik jadi orang yang TIDAK TERLUPAKAN daripada orang yang MEMBOSANKAN -” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember? — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
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 Image
