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  1. Lisa See _ Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

    You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.
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  2. Lisa See _ Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

    The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.
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  3. Lisa See _ Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

    In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love.
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  4. Lisa See _ Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

    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.
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  5. Lisa See _ Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

    Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.
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  6. Lisa See _ Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

    Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.
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  7. Lisa See _ Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

    For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me - as a girl and later as a woman - to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.
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  8. Lisa See _ Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

    I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.
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  9. Lisa See _ Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

    Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
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