Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love. Peony in Love

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

All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.

I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.

For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.

There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang