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“It’s my fault she is this way. I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I…

— Amy Tan

“I don't want her to either, which is exactly what I've been saying. Still, there's a part of me that hates that our family…

— Lisa See

“We may look and act modern in many ways, but we can’t escape what we are... obedient chinese daughters.”

— Lisa See

You have opened a new chapter in the relations of the American and Chinese people... I am confident that this beginning of our friendship…

— Zhou Enlai

I wonder what things will be like for my daughter; she seems so comfortable growing up with an international identity.

— Lee Isaac Chung

“In a crowd of Caucasians, two Chinese people are already like family.”

— Amy Tan

I think a lot of us go through a period where we feel like outsiders, and deal with that by wishing we were insiders.…

— Gene Luen Yang

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

“I am grown, with children of my own. But inside I am still a daughter. A daughter is a woman who remains internally dependent,…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I explained that he was Chinese, and she asked if the movie would be in Chinese. "No," I said, "he lives in America. In…

— David Sedaris

What the Chinese parent is conveying to the child is not that 'you've got to get A's or else I won't like you.' On…

— Amy Chua

“The very people the Chinese government would like to see having babies are highly educated urban women, who would be able to produce children…

— Leta Hong Fincher