It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.

She loves you. She's just forgotten how to show it.

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.

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.

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.

In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.