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

And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.

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

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

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

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