Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like and what we should look like. Then we spend half of our life trying to be not like them, and then we reach another part of our lives where we see these things we can't get rid of.
Amy TanI feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.
Amy TanYou should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.
Amy Tan