Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

In a time of destruction, create something.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen. Even if she had to rage across all China, a swordswoman got even with anybody who hurt her family. Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound.

You're too young to decide to live forever.

Adultery is extravagance.