But then this is how it is for women everywhere. You experience one lapse in conscience, in how low you think you’ll go, in what you’ll accept, and pretty soon you’re at the bottom.
Blessings and worry, happiness and fear – this is a mother’s love.
Hyacinth bean and papayas, long vines, deep roots. Palm trees outside the garden walls, with deep roots, stand a thousand years.
When fortune comes, do not enjoy all of it; when advantage comes, do not take all of it.
As obident as dogs and as stupid as water buffalo.
You can always count on people to crowded your party when you’re in glory but you should never dream of people sending you charcoal in the cold.
Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.
People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men’s writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother’s love.
The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life.
I’ve come to believe that part of lovesickness comes from this conflict between control and desire. In love we have no control. Our hearts and minds are tormented, teased, enticed and delighted by the overwhelming strength of emotions that make us try to forget the real world.
I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That’s the meaning of fate.
My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.
Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.
Maybe we’re all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they’re extraordinary.
Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.
I didn’t know you would be here last night, but you were. We can’t fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.
There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang.
In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I wanted to cling to her wings and soar, no matter how intimidated I was.
You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.