The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.

I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate.

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.

For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.

I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create many words out of one character.

And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.

Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.