Amy Tan
Amy Tan
Amy Tanis an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese-American experience. Her best-known work is The Joy Luck Club, which has been translated into 25 languages. In 1993, the book was adapted into a commercially successful film...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 February 1952
CityOakland, CA
CountryUnited States of America
fall necklaces way
When you lose your face..., it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it.
daughter mother fear
And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.
emotional thinking numbers
Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.
love stars fall
I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.
daughter laughing forever
Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.
hate results wounded
Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?
done weakness blame
How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?
girl daughter mother
I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.
power hands
You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
mother teaching trying
Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like and what we should look like. Then we spend half of our life trying to be not like them, and then we reach another part of our lives where we see these things we can't get rid of.
lonely loneliness writing
I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.
intelligent expression choices
I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
success conformity rebellion
It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
love pain years
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.