I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.

I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.

In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love.

Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.

People write to me all the time, and I write back.

How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?

All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.