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Jung Chang has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of…
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For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her…
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When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.
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At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.
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If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their…
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I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to…
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When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party…
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While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised…
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I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place…
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I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people,…
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The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People…
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I was not allowed to take notes but my friend and I memorised those two and a half pages. Most people talked…
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At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.
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I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family…
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In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one…
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Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know…
— Frank Herbert
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The White Mansion isn't boring, lass. Never boring. It's the grand demesne the Unseelie King built for his concubine. It's a living,…
— Karen Marie Moning
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We can't continue to be like this. Who am I? Your fiancée or your concubine?
— Ha Jin
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It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place of wife…
— David Josiah Brewer
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You are hurting people. you are hurting yourself. I care about myself and I feel more than other people.
— Jody Bon
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