I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“What use for? asks my mother, jiggling the table with her hand. You put something else on top, everything fall down.” — 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
My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So,… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“I made a promise to myself: I would always remember my parents' wishes, but I would never forget myself.” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“My mother and I never really understood one another. We translated each other's meanings and I seemed to hear less than what… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“My mother knows how to hit a nerve. And the pain I feel is worse than any other kind of misery. Because… — 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
People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy… — 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
My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didnt always know how to be… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“A good government had to guide its people, sometimes gently, sometimes strictly, just as parents did. It could allow certain freedoms, but… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was… — 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
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 my eyes, my mother gave me my eyes, no eyelids, as if they were carved on a jack-o'-lantern with two swift… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“As proof of her faith, my mother used to carry a small leatherette Bible when she went to the First Chinese Baptist… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
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
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
“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
My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“...I owed her a debt of gratitude. More than gratitude, much more. I could finally see what had always been there. She… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“As proof of her faith, my mother used to carry a samll leatherette Bible when she went to the First Chinese Baptist… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“My mother believed in God's will for many years. It was af if she had turned on a celestial faucet and goodness… — 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
“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
“I do not consider myself a religious person, because I don't adhere to a particular religion or faith or prescribed beliefs, as… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Thanks to my mother, I was raised to have a morbid imagination. When I was a child, she often talked about death… — 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
Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. — 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
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
