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 abuseโanxiety, fear, guilt, and degradationโis far worse and much harder to survive.
Lisa SeeIn 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.
Lisa SeePerhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.
Lisa SeeAnd often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.
Lisa See