--- title: "1 Mother Learned Quotes By Jenny Zhang" description: "1 Mother Learned quotes by Jenny Zhang. Plus more from Jenny Zhang and more Mother Learned sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30d/jenny-zhang-7725_children_it-was-my-mother-who-tucked-him-in-and-t_578598.jpg" --- > [“It was my mother who tucked him in and told him that there exists a sort of love in the world that only survives as long as no one ever speaks of it, and that was why he would never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-zhang/it-was-my-mother-who-tucked-him-in-and-told-him-that-there-exists-a/) [Jenny Zhang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-zhang/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30d/jenny-zhang-7725_children_it-was-my-mother-who-tucked-him-in-and-t_578598.jpg) ## More by Jenny Zhang > [I grew up in a Chinese American enclave where the person who lived down the street had literally lived down the street from my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-zhang/i-grew-up-in-a-chinese-american-enclave-where-the-person-who-lived/) [Jenny Zhang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-zhang/) > [I think it was really important for me before I 'debuted myself' in front of the world to have a private life with my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-zhang/i-think-it-was-really-important-for-me-before-i-debuted-myself-in/) [Jenny Zhang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-zhang/) > [When it comes to love, maturity often gets a bad rap - second love is boring; it's practical. It's what our parents feel for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-zhang/when-it-comes-to-love-maturity-often-gets-a-bad-rap-second-love-is/) [Jenny Zhang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-zhang/) > [I seem to be drawn to these smaller forms, and I seem to be drawn to things that can be written and also read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-zhang/i-seem-to-be-drawn-to-these-smaller-forms-and-i-seem-to-be-drawn-to/) [Jenny Zhang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-zhang/) > [Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror - robotic, unfeeling machines psychotically hellbent on excelling, products of abusive tiger parenting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-zhang/asian-american-success-is-often-presented-as-something-of-a-horror/) [Jenny Zhang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-zhang/) > [When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more universal stories.'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-zhang/when-i-was-writing-stories-about-chinese-american-characters-in-my/) [Jenny Zhang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-zhang/) > [I wish it wasn't so natural for me to dwell on the past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-zhang/i-wish-it-wasn-t-so-natural-for-me-to-dwell-on-the-past/) [Jenny Zhang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-zhang/) > [We lived in one of those half-basement apartments, and on our first night of being in America, someone reached through the grate that protects…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-zhang/we-lived-in-one-of-those-half-basement-apartments-and-on-our-first/) [Jenny Zhang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-zhang/) > [That's what people expect: They don't want to read a slight novel. People don't want to waste their time on anything less than 'great.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-zhang/that-s-what-people-expect-they-don-t-want-to-read-a-slight-novel/) [Jenny Zhang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-zhang/) > [My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-zhang/my-privileged-upbringing-and-education-and-linguistic-fluency-gave-me/) [Jenny Zhang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-zhang/) > [I still catch myself trying to become the object someone imagines me to be, but then there are other times, when I am free,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-zhang/i-still-catch-myself-trying-to-become-the-object-someone-imagines-me/) [Jenny Zhang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-zhang/) > [How do we form a coalition of resistance without obliterating our differences? Not all lives matter, and we are not all the same immigrants.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-zhang/how-do-we-form-a-coalition-of-resistance-without-obliterating-our/) [Jenny Zhang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-zhang/) > [It's like a weird mindset to wake up and want to be wanted. Like, I want to be wanted so much already... and I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-zhang/it-s-like-a-weird-mindset-to-wake-up-and-want-to-be-wanted-like-i/) [Jenny Zhang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-zhang/) > [Does self-acceptance ultimately require another person, or is there a kind of love that does not dabble in the dream of a perfect twinship?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-zhang/does-self-acceptance-ultimately-require-another-person-or-is-there-a/) [Jenny Zhang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-zhang/) > [It's okay if someone is disgusted or offended by my performance. It's just a performance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-zhang/it-s-okay-if-someone-is-disgusted-or-offended-by-my-performance-it-s/) [Jenny Zhang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-zhang/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mother-learned/jenny-zhang/#itemlist", "name": "1 Mother Learned Quotes By Jenny Zhang", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It was my mother who tucked him in and told him that there exists a sort of love in the world that only survives as long as no one ever speaks of it, and that was why he would never have to worry because my grandmother was never going to be the kind of mother who held her children in her arms and told them how smart and beautiful and talented they were. 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