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
I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate.
Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.
You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.
And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.
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.
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.
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.
I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.
I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.
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.
You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.
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.