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Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

— Amy Tan The Kitchen God's Wife (1991)

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"You see what power is — holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them! Besides, maybe it is true. Maybe Peanut and Little Yu's mother are now big Communists, who knows?"

The Kitchen God's Wife (1991)

For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.

The Joy Luck Club (1989)

I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

The Joy Luck Club (1989)

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?

The Hundred Secret Senses (1995)

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