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.
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.