Lisa See
Lisa See
Lisa See is an American writer and novelist. Her paternal great-grandfather was Chinese, which has had a great impact on her life and work. Her books include On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family, a detailed account of See's family history, and the novels Flower Net, The Interior, Dragon Bones, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Loveand Shanghai Girls, which made it to the 2010 New York Times bestseller list. Both Shanghai Girls and Snow...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth18 February 1955
CountryUnited States of America
When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging me to go one more hour, one more day, one more week, reminding me of the rewards I would have if I carried on a little longer. In this way, she taught me how to endure — not just the physical trials of footbinding and childbearing but the more torturous pain of the heart, mind, and soul.
You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.
There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang
I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.
When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.
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.
Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.
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.
How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?
And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.
Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions
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.
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.
In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.