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Top 15 Gish Jen Quotes (2024 Update)

Gish Jen Quote: “I’m trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.”

1. “I’m trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.”

Gish Jen Quote: “Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.”

2. “Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.”

Gish Jen Quote: “A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.”

3. “A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.”

Gish Jen Quote: “He was not what he made up his mind to be. A man was the sum of his limits: freedom only made him see how much so. America was no America.”

4. “He was not what he made up his mind to be. A man was the sum of his limits: freedom only made him see how much so. America was no America.”

Gish Jen Quote: “These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.”

5. “These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.”

Gish Jen Quote: “Whatever I do in life, I’m almost always aware that there’s another way to do it.”

6. “Whatever I do in life, I’m almost always aware that there’s another way to do it.”

Gish Jen Quote: “I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.”

7. “I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.”

Gish Jen Quote: “I like to listen. I’m much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.”

8. “I like to listen. I’m much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.”

Gish Jen Quote: “Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.”

9. “Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.”

Gish Jen Quote: “That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special – these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.”

10. “That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special – these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.”

Gish Jen Quote: “It’s human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It’s very interdependent!”

11. “It’s human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It’s very interdependent!”

Gish Jen Quote: “Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.”

12. “Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.”

Gish Jen Quote: “For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga.”

13. “For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga.”

Gish Jen Quote: “I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.”

14. “I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.”

Gish Jen Quote: “The independents are the ones who tend to commit suicide. I’m not against this way of being in the world. Individuals have brought us many treasures. You can’t just say that’s a bad way of being in the world – it’s not. But it’s not everyone’s way of being in the world.”

15. “The independents are the ones who tend to commit suicide. I’m not against this way of being in the world. Individuals have brought us many treasures. You can’t just say that’s a bad way of being in the world – it’s not. But it’s not everyone’s way of being in the world.”

Gish Jen Quote: “A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.”

16. “A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.”

Gish Jen Quote: “If you ask her, I’ll kill you,” says Callie pleasantly. And so it is that when Naomi and Mona are introduced – really, reintroduced – Mona prepares to ask her immediately.”

17. “If you ask her, I’ll kill you,” says Callie pleasantly. And so it is that when Naomi and Mona are introduced – really, reintroduced – Mona prepares to ask her immediately.”

Gish Jen Quote: “There’s nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.”

18. “There’s nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.”

Gish Jen Quote: “When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you’re never bored.”

19. “When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you’re never bored.”

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