Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Quotes

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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We n...

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

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.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to ...

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one and the same. For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me - as a girl and later as a woman - to want or expect it, but I did, and this unju...

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan