Lisa See Quotes - Page 3

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

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  Mistake, Stupid, Men

  Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.44, Random House

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• My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.

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  Book, Electronics

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• And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.

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  Winning, Feet, Age

  "Lisa See: secret women's writing". "The Book Show" with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. December 28, 2006.

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• People write to me all the time, and I write back.

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  Writing, People

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• Model communes are the ones where the leaders lie the best and the biggest.

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  Lying, Leader, Communes

  Lisa See (2011). “Dreams of Joy: A Novel”, p.262, Random House

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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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  Hurt, Thinking, Betrayed

  "Lisa See: Best-selling Author Talks Female Friendships, Adapting Her Novel To Film". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2011.

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• Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious to the praying mantis behind it. The mantis arches up its front leg to stab the cicada, but it doesn't know an oriole perches behind it. The bird stretches out its neck to snap up the mantis for a midday meal, but its unaware of the boy who's come into the garden with a net. Three creatures—the cicada, the mantis and the oriole—all coveted gains without being aware of the greater and inescapable danger that was coming.

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  Boys, Garden, Praying Mantis

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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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  Feet, Towns, Would Be

  "Lisa See: Secret Women's Writing". "The Book Show" with Lyn Gallacher, www.abc.net.au. December 28, 2006.

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• I write a thousand words a day.

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  Writing, Thousand

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• I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create many words out of one character.

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  Character, Thinking, Needs

  "Lisa See: secret women's writing". "The Book Show" with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. December 28, 2006.

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• I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

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  Los Angeles, Whole Life, Knows

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• 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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  Heart, Eye, Breathing

  Lisa See (2011). “Peony in Love”, p.37, A&C Black

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• I’ve never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn’t know that there might be another way to live, and I didn’t worry about it either.

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  Girl, Children, Fun

  Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan”, p.10, A&C Black

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

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  Teacher, Children, Parent

  Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan”, p.234, A&C Black

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• Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.

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  Husband, Flower, Snow

  Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan”, p.153, A&C Black

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• If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick. . . But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn't she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye?

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  Mother, Suicide, Children

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• Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love. Peony in Love

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  Heart, Romantic Love, Ideas

  Lisa See (2011). “Peony in Love”, p.231, A&C Black

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• But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

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  Book, Looks, Maps

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• I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

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  Chinese, Los Angeles, American Family

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• I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.

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  Research, Fanatics

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• Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.

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  Daughter, Growing Up, Parent

  Lisa See (2013). “Shanghai Girls and Dreams of Joy: Two Bestselling Novels”, p.412, Random House

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