Xinran Quotes

• Everybody says women are like water. I think it's because water is the source of life, and it adapts itself to its environment. Like women, water also gives of itself wherever it goes to nurture life.

  Xinran

  Thinking, Water, Giving

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• The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through.

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  Way, Our Future, Depends

  Xinran (2012). “Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• No one likes crying, but tears water our souls.

  Xinran

  Water, Soul, Tears

  Xinran (2010). “Sky Burial”, p.164, Random House

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• The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have.

  Xinran

  Want, Knows

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• No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books.

  Xinran

  Book, Water, Soul

  Xinran (2010). “Sky Burial”, p.164, Random House

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