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. Lisa See More Quotes by Lisa See More Quotes From Lisa See When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love Lisa See alive real people All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs. Lisa See disappointment dream love My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears. Lisa See tears moments heart 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. Lisa See pain mother heart 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. Lisa See age feet winning People write to me all the time, and I write back. Lisa See writing people I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives. Lisa See adults people thinking When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad. Lisa See A brave heart? It feels like a swollen and aching thing in my chest. Lisa See brave heart feels I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's husband, and for one's laotong. I've experienced the other types of love--pity love, respectful love and gratitude love. But looking at our secret fan with its messages written between Snow Flower and me over many years, I see that I didn't value the most important love--deep-heart love. Lisa See gratitude husband mother 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. Lisa See husband flower snow 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. Lisa See whole-life los-angeles knows You can't fight your fate...It is predestined. Lisa See predestined fate fighting 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. Lisa See towns would-be feet But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that. Lisa See maps book looks I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles. Lisa See american-family los-angeles chinese May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other's frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we've had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time. Lisa See sister fighting mistake I've come to believe that part of lovesickness comes from this conflict between control and desire. In love we have no control. Our hearts and minds are tormented, teased, enticed and delighted by the overwhelming strength of emotions that make us try to forget the real world. Lisa See real heart believe Model communes are the ones where the leaders lie the best and the biggest. Lisa See communes leader lying Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake. Lisa See stupid mistake men
