Lisa See quotes

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

Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.

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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.

Lisa See

Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.

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In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love.

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Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

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Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.

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I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

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Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.

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People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other. (Lisa See)

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

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There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang.

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He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.

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When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love.

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I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.

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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.

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In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.

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We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.

Lisa See

How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?

Lisa See

Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire? (Lisa See)

My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.

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In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I wanted to cling to her wings and soar, no matter how intimidated I was.

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It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.

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I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That's universal in women's friendships.

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Lisa See

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Occupation: American Writer
Born: February 18, 1955
Quotes count: 38

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