Argument Quote by Amy Tan

My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.

— Amy Tan

My great grandmother was Chinese .

— Michael Craig-Martin

My grandparents were far more English in their manners than they were Chinese. For example, we spoke English at home, had afternoon tea every…

— Kevin Kwan

My mom was a house mom when we were growing up, and that's all I knew about her. I had a really big disconnect…

— Amber Liu

It's incredibly rewarding to have people come up to me at readings and say, 'I'm not Chinese, but this is the relationship I have…

— Celeste Ng

Even though I grew up in America, at home we spoke mostly Chinese, because my mom is from Taiwan.

— Lisa Joy

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have…

— Maya Lin

“Whenever kids asked me, “Are you Chinese?”—which was often—I would invariably respond yes. My mother heard me doing this once and gave me hell…

— Euny Hong

My father was English. He date-raped my mother so she's hated English men ever since. You know my boyfriend's English, and I'm, uh, I'm…

— Jeaniene Frost

Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent.…

— Amy Tan

Throughout most of my life, I've tried to downplay my Chinese heritage because I wanted so much to be an American. I was the…

— Tess Gerritsen

The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.

— Tony Benn