Auntie Quote by Amy Tan

She [my mother] said that if I listened to her, later I would know what she knew: where true words came from, always from…

— Amy Tan

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the…

— Henry James

“My mother and I never really understood one another. We translated each other's meanings and I seemed to hear less than what was said,…

— Amy Tan

'It's much better to understand than to be understood,' from my mom.

— Cara Santana

“It took me a long time to understand that she wasn't being incoherent or contradictory, but rather that it was I myself, arrogant class…

— Édouard Louis

It's true that misunderstanding and lack of understanding are often themes in my fiction, but I am grateful for the moments when true understanding…

— Ken Liu

“As I ate she began the first of what we later called “my lessons in living.” She said that I must always be intolerant…

— Maya Angelou

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary

— Lynn Johnston

“I gave people who didn’t know what to say the best advice I could muster, which was that it was better to say anything…

— Will Schwalbe

“I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young." "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know,…

— Douglas Adams

“It was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back”

— Stephen Chbosky

“Grandmother's voice was ice. "They do not. Your mother has been happy all these years, till you began stirring up old memories. Leave her…

— L.M. Montgomery