If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?

I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

I had always assumed we had an unspoken understanding about these things: that she didn't really mean I was a failure, and I really meant I would try to respect her opinions more. But listening to Auntie Lin tonight reminds me once agian: My mother and I never really understood one another. We translated each other's meanings and I seemed to hear less than what was said, while my mother heard more. No doubt she told Auntie Lin I was going back to school to get a doctorate.

My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.

A Mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.