I write a thousand words a day.

You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.

I've come to believe that part of lovesickness comes from this conflict between control and desire. In love we have no control. Our hearts and minds are tormented, teased, enticed and delighted by the overwhelming strength of emotions that make us try to forget the real world.

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

Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial.