More From Amy Tan
- "My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day."
- "I think I’ve always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success."
- "No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn’t have encouragement, but I didn’t have discouragement, because I don’t think anybody knew what that meant."
More In Respect
- "I take any opportunity I can to raise our country’s flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there."― Kirsty Coventry
- "Black women don’t have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies."― Tyra Banks
- "Show respect to all people, but grovel to none."― Tecumseh