12 quotes found
“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.”
“The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you.”
“You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.”
“I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.”
“the human body is a miniature version of the universe - the eyes and ears are the sun and moon, breath is air, blood is rain.”
“The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.”
“All the time, I looked out our lattice window. I watched the birds fly by. I followed the clouds on their travels. I studied the moon as it grew larger, then shrank. So much happened outside my win...”
“Wanting to give her the best fit I could, I sand the knowledge I had learned from Snow Flower. "Everyone needs clothing-no matter how cool it is in summer or how warm it is in winter-so make clothe...”
“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 ...”
“The Story of the Woman with Three Brothers"A woman once had three brothers. They all had wives, but she was not married. Though she was virtuous and hardworking, her brothers would not offer a dowr...”
“I have heard that you should not do bed business after too much hard work, " Snow Flower told me, "but I don't believe that my mother-in-law has heard that." She looked exhausted. I felt the same w...”
“Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual compl...”
