Hardships can harden even the best person.

I have always known a thing before it happens.

Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.

When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming, no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.

Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.

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

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.