The independents are the ones who tend to commit suicide. I'm not against this way of being in the world. Individuals have brought us many treasures. You can't just say that's a bad way of being in the world - it's not. But it's not everyone's way of being in the world.

It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!

It's a matter of whether you see the self as fundamentally in relationship to other selves or not - whether you see the boundary between self and the world as relatively permeable, which makes you "interdependent" (collectivist) in outlook, or relatively impermeable, which makes you "independent" (individualistic).

Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.

Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

The independents are the ones who tend to commit suicide. I'm not against this way of being in the world. Individuals have brought us many treasures. You can't just say that's a bad way of being in the world - it's not. But it's not everyone's way of being in the world.