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

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

My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.

People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say emotional abuse—anxiety, fear, guilt, and degradation—is far worse and much harder to survive.

When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.

Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions

Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.