More From Amy Tan
- "You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you’ve just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable."
- "I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression."
- "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."
More In Family
- "I’m a Republican. I don’t want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat."― T. Boone Pickens
- "Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster."― Agnes Smedley
- "Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity."― Jim DeMint