An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I have carried with me all of my life. We recognized each other. I was her child and she was my mother.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.