And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.

I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate.

Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.

Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love