When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.
I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.
And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.
I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.
It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have – I guess you’d call them beauty contests – where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.
You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
A brave heart? It feels like a swollen and aching thing in my chest.
People write to me all the time, and I write back.
Model communes are the ones where the leaders lie the best and the biggest.
Don’t ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.
While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.
I write a thousand words a day.
I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you’re able to then create many words out of one character.
I don’t really know anything about the movie business, even though I’ve lived in Los Angeles my whole life – somehow I’ve never bumped into it.
I love research. I’d go so far as to say I’m a research fanatic.
All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.
She loves you. She’s just forgotten how to show it.
When the sun is shining, think of the time it won’t be, because even when you’re sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above. Page 279.
Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.
The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.