Quotes by Amy Chua

About Amy Chua:

Amy L. Chua is an American lawyer, writer, and legal scholar. She is the John M. Duff Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She joined the Yale faculty in 2001 after teaching at Duke Law School for seven years. Prior to starting her teaching career, she was a corporate law associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. She specializes in the study of international business transactions, law and development, ethnic conflict, and globalization and the law and is noted for her parenting memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. In 2011, she was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people, one of the Atlantic Monthly’s Brave Thinkers, and one of Foreign Policy’s Global Thinkers.
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I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough.

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The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.

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I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will have taught my daughters to be that way, and I'm now constantly telling them not to do that.

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I do think that maybe, even subconsciously, a lot of parents in the West are wondering, have we gone too far in the direction of coddling and protecting - you know, you see kids, sometimes that seem very rude and disrespectful. And the more important...

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The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background.

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Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immi...

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There's a lot of rudeness and sullen behavior and kids that are very entitled and spoiled, just buy me more stuff. I didn't want to raise kids like that.

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Oddly enough, I'm not a particularly judgmental person. I just don't have a lot of filtering when I'm in 'tiger mother' mode. I say what comes into my head.

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I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.

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When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of ...

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I was the one that in a very overconfident immigrant way thought I knew exactly how to raise my kids. My husband was much more typical. He had a lot of anxiety; he didn't think he knew all the right choices. And, I was the one willing to put in the h...

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What the Chinese parent is conveying to the child is not that 'you've got to get A's or else I won't like you.' On the contrary, it's, 'I believe in you so much, I know that you can be excellent.'

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Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?

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When my children were young, I was very cocky. I thought I could maintain total control.

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I'm willing to be different than other parents and go against the mainstream.

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The Chinese model calls for giving your kids very little choice - and I've come to see that you can go too far with that. On the other hand, I also believe that Western parents sometimes give their young kids too much choice.

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Some people are just self-motivated - my husband was. I also believe there are many children for whom parental involvement is key.

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When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.

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I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they don't run. They really act up.

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I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.

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A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

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Author Bio

  • NameAmy Chua
  • DescriptionAmerican lawyer, writer, and legal scholar
  • AliasesAmy L. Chua
  • BornOctober 26, 1962
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionLawyer; Writer