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Top 25 Anchee Min Quotes (2024 Update)

Anchee Min Quote: “If you can’t go back to your mother’s womb, you’d better learn to be a good fighter.”

1. “If you can’t go back to your mother’s womb, you’d better learn to be a good fighter.”

Anchee Min Quote: “The sun doesn’t just hang on one family’s tree.”

2. “The sun doesn’t just hang on one family’s tree.”

Anchee Min Quote: “Tea, opera and poetry should not be missed – longevity depends on one’s mental cultivation.”

3. “Tea, opera and poetry should not be missed – longevity depends on one’s mental cultivation.”

Anchee Min Quote: “I think about giving up. I almost do.”

4. “I think about giving up. I almost do.”

Anchee Min Quote: “My mind swirled with memories of the life I had led. The constant struggle to keep up appearances, the pretenses, the smiles that had been met with tears. The long sleepless nights, the loneliness that cloaked my spirit and turned me into a true ghost.”

5. “My mind swirled with memories of the life I had led. The constant struggle to keep up appearances, the pretenses, the smiles that had been met with tears. The long sleepless nights, the loneliness that cloaked my spirit and turned me into a true ghost.”

Anchee Min Quote: “If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river.”

6. “If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river.”

Anchee Min Quote: “There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it’s in all the textbooks.”

7. “There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it’s in all the textbooks.”

Anchee Min Quote: “When Chinese get together – what’s buried stays buried. We don’t even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.”

8. “When Chinese get together – what’s buried stays buried. We don’t even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.”

Anchee Min Quote: “No matter how American I become, I’m considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.”

9. “No matter how American I become, I’m considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.”

Anchee Min Quote: “To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.”

10. “To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.”

Anchee Min Quote: “My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It’s too fancy for me. My biggest goal was to be an office receptionist, answer phones. I didn’t expect to go beyond that.”

11. “My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It’s too fancy for me. My biggest goal was to be an office receptionist, answer phones. I didn’t expect to go beyond that.”

Anchee Min Quote: “My parents lived likeas the neighbours described thema pair of chopsticks, always in harmony.”

12. “My parents lived likeas the neighbours described thema pair of chopsticks, always in harmony.”

Anchee Min Quote: “Your hands are too small to cover the sky.”

13. “Your hands are too small to cover the sky.”

Anchee Min Quote: “Do you know who Karl Marx is? He is this strange little man, long dead, who lived his narrow little life, and somehow managed by the power of his wayward brain to lay hold upon millions of human lives!”

14. “Do you know who Karl Marx is? He is this strange little man, long dead, who lived his narrow little life, and somehow managed by the power of his wayward brain to lay hold upon millions of human lives!”

Anchee Min Quote: “The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.”

15. “The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.”

Anchee Min Quote: “I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what kind of power was his? He was a prisoner of himself.”

16. “I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what kind of power was his? He was a prisoner of himself.”

Anchee Min Quote: “The most important lesson he taught me was that there was no one singular perspective on things or emotions in the universe – no one way of comprehending truth.”

17. “The most important lesson he taught me was that there was no one singular perspective on things or emotions in the universe – no one way of comprehending truth.”

Anchee Min Quote: “Tea tasted the best at its second pouring. A.”

18. “Tea tasted the best at its second pouring. A.”

Anchee Min Quote: “The weak one waits for opportunity while the strong one creates.”

19. “The weak one waits for opportunity while the strong one creates.”

Anchee Min Quote: “I stood in the wind and tried to get through the moment.”

20. “I stood in the wind and tried to get through the moment.”

Anchee Min Quote: “Mother once told me that one had to lower one’s head when passing under low eaves in order to avoid injury.”

21. “Mother once told me that one had to lower one’s head when passing under low eaves in order to avoid injury.”

Anchee Min Quote: “I led my schoolmates in collecting pennies. We wanted to donate the pennies to the starving children in America.”

22. “I led my schoolmates in collecting pennies. We wanted to donate the pennies to the starving children in America.”

Anchee Min Quote: “We were meant to survive because of our minds’ ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.”

23. “We were meant to survive because of our minds’ ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.”

Anchee Min Quote: “The lonely ones are making their moves with us, struggling with a fright that is so deep it has blinded their inner-sight. They know they will be shot if caught, so do we. They regard this moment as their last performance, so do we. The fright sweetens the mood. We are near to death as well as to heaven.”

24. “The lonely ones are making their moves with us, struggling with a fright that is so deep it has blinded their inner-sight. They know they will be shot if caught, so do we. They regard this moment as their last performance, so do we. The fright sweetens the mood. We are near to death as well as to heaven.”

Anchee Min Quote: “My life so far was a piece of embroidery with every stitch sewn by my own hands.”

25. “My life so far was a piece of embroidery with every stitch sewn by my own hands.”

Anchee Min Quote: “Misery is the work of the mind,” Nuharoo said as she took a sip of her tea. “Master it and you will feel nothing but happiness. The beauty of my nails has not been damaged, because they stayed inside the protectors.”

26. “Misery is the work of the mind,” Nuharoo said as she took a sip of her tea. “Master it and you will feel nothing but happiness. The beauty of my nails has not been damaged, because they stayed inside the protectors.”

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