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Lisa See Quote: “No matter what you’re feeling or how desperate you become, always take a moral position. If you do that, God will watch over you.”
Lisa See Quote: “To see Sow Flower’s mother eat that meat was something I’ll never forget. She had been raised to be a fine lady and, as hungry as she was, she did not tear into the food as someone in my family might. She used her chopsticks to pull apart slivers of the pork and lift them delicately to her lips. Her restraint and control taught me a lesson I have not strayed from to this day. You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less that a cultivated woman.”
Lisa See Quote: “Blessings and worry, happiness and fear – this is a mother’s love.”
Lisa See Quote: “To believe in dreams is to spend half your life asleep.”
Lisa See Quote: “You look at me now and see an old face, but once I was beautiful.”
Lisa See Quote: “You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.”
Lisa See Quote: “As obident as dogs and as stupid as water buffalo.”
Lisa See Quote: “She loves you. She’s just forgotten how to show it.”
Lisa See Quote: “They say nothing to me in a very loud way.”
Lisa See Quote: “You are very smart. You must be very well educated. You are very pretty. You must be very rich because you’re a writer.”
Lisa See Quote: “A woman isn’t just one thing. The past is in us, constantly changing us. Heartache and failure shift perspectives as do joy and triumphs.”
Lisa See Quote: “No coincidence, no story.”
Lisa See Quote: “But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can’t see that.”
Lisa See Quote: “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.”
Lisa See Quote: “Stories tell us how we should live.”
Lisa See Quote: “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.”
Lisa See Quote: “How can I help change things if I sit by and do nothing?”
Lisa See Quote: “My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.”
Lisa See Quote: “Because inside we still carry the dreams of what could have been, of what should have been, of what we wish could still be. This doesn’t mean we aren’t content. We are content, but the romantic longings of our girlhood have never entirely left us. It’s like Yen-Yen said all those years ago: ‘I look in the mirror and I’m surprised by what I see.’ I look in the mirror and still expect to see my Shanghai-girl self- not the wife and mother I’ve become.”
Lisa See Quote: “What the body knows and what the mind chooses to believe are two different things, after all.”
Lisa See Quote: “But anger can be dangerous and have unintended consequences.”
Lisa See Quote: “What can we do? We’re only women,” she says. But it’s because I’m a woman, that I dare to go.”
Lisa See Quote: “Danseuse routine and my fame grew. I could walk into a.”
Lisa See Quote: “Every day Fu-shee, the smaller children, and I fan out in the hills around Green Dragon to strip trees of their bark and leaves, dig up roots and search for wild grass. We’ll eat anything, and we have. But you can’t eat a leather belt like it’s a crisp cucumber. You soak it, boil it, and chew on it for days.”
Lisa See Quote: “People write to me all the time, and I write back.”
Lisa See Quote: “Deep love-true-heart love-must grow. Back then I didn’t yet understand the burning kind of love, so instead I thought about the rice paddies I used to see on my daily walks down to the river with my brother when I still had all my milk teeth. Maybe I could make our love grow like a farmer made his crop to grow-through hard work, unwavering will, and the blessings of nature. How funny that I can remember that even now! Waaa! I knew so little about life, but I knew enough to think like a farmer.”
Lisa See Quote: “It took me me many years to realize that my perceptions at this time was completely wrong.”
Lisa See Quote: “Well, Chinese used to be seen as low, right? Working on the railroad, in laundries, and stuff like that. Now they’re seen as smart and wealthy. I mean, isn’t there the stereotype of the model minority? I read an article for school that said people like us – not you, Dr. Rosen – are now labeled as inquisitive, persistent, and ambitious. With ingenuity, fortitude, and cleverness.”
Lisa See Quote: “The government labels the haenyeo a cultural heritage treasure – something dying out that must be preserved, if only in memory. How does it feel to be the last of the last?” If they’re academics, they’ll want to talk about Jeju’s matrifocal culture, explaining, “It’s not a matriarchy. Rather, it’s a society focused on women.”
Lisa See Quote: “Sometimes you must experience heartache to have a treasured result.”
Lisa See Quote: “How can the moon be scooped from the water’s surface, or flowers be plucked from the void?”
Lisa See Quote: “As A-ma said, every story, every dream, every waking minute of our lives is filled with one fateful coincidence after another.”
Lisa See Quote: “I grew up believing that rice was to nourish and that tea was to heal. Now I understand that tea is also to connect and to dream. That seduction is deeper and more profound than could happen with any man.”
Lisa See Quote: “Don’t blame yourself for things that maybe happened,” she said.”
Lisa See Quote: “DR. ROSEN: Does the phrase grateful-but-angry have resonance for anyone? You can be grateful you have your mom and dad, because they love you and they’ve given you good lives with all kinds of privilege.”
Lisa See Quote: “People keep asking me why I don’t return to China. I tell them I can’t return to a place I’ve never been. In.”
Lisa See Quote: “My mother had died in the sea, but we could never forget that it gave us life.”
Lisa See Quote: “Your tears will be added to the oceans of salty tears that wash in great waves across our planet. This I know. If you try to live, you can live on well.”
Lisa See Quote: “It takes a lifetime to make a friend, but you can lose one in an hour,” she recites. “Life without a friend is life without sun. Life without a friend is death.”
Lisa See Quote: “Joy is a delicious luxury that we experience most cautiously, for tragedy conceals itself around every corner.”
Lisa See Quote: “As for children, every woman knows the fears and sorrows. Joy is a delicious luxury that we experience most cautiously, for tragedy conceals itself around every corner.”
Lisa See Quote: “Every one of us could complain, but would that make our situation emotionally easier or physically more comfortable?”
Lisa See Quote: “Store up good deeds and you will meet with good. Store up evil actions and you will meet with evil.”
Lisa See Quote: “On land, you will be a mother. In the sea, you can be a grieving widow. Your tears will be added to the oceans of salty tears that wash in great waves across our planet. This I know. If you try to live, you can live on well.”
Lisa See Quote: “It is our duty to be keepers and managers of the sea. If we protect our wet fields, they will continue to provide for us.”
Lisa See Quote: “You are a little girl, so you are still in milk days.”
Lisa See Quote: “No man was built to shoulder the full weight of feeding and caring for his family. That was why he had a wife and daughters.”
Lisa See Quote: “Your mother will always exist in you. She will give you strength wherever you go.”
Lisa See Quote: “But when people suggested the haenyeo start using oxygen tanks, she, along with other divers around the island, refused. “Everything we do must be natural,” she’d told the collective, “otherwise we’ll harvest too much, deplete our wet fields, and earn nothing.” There, again, balance.”
Lisa See Quote: “I had to hold on to my anger and my bitterness as a way of honoring those I’d lost.”
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