You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.
There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang
Model communes are the ones where the leaders lie the best and the biggest.
I’ve never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn’t know that there might be another way to live, and I didn’t worry about it either.
When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.
The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.