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

I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

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

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.

You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.

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

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