“External success has to do with people who may see me as a model, or an example, or a representative. As much as I may dislike or want to reject that responsibility, this is something that comes with public success. It's important to give others a sense of hope that it is possible and you can come from really different places in the world and find your own place in the world that's unique for yourself.” PeopleWorldWantGivingMayImportantDifferentResponsibilityExampleUniqueModelsRejectsDislikeRepresentativesDifferent PlacePlaces In The World Author:Amy Tan
“We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become different in the questions that arise as we read, in the answers that we find, in the degree of satisfaction or unease we feel with those answers...In the hands of a different reader, the same story can be a different story.” NeedsFeelsBookDifferentStoriesHandsAnswersReaderDegreesSatisfactionArise Author:Amy Tan
“I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.” NeedsDifferentLightEyeMotherSawsComfortableRoutineNew Eyes Author:Amy Tan
“No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.” WorldTwoDifferentRealityLanguageSocialLabelsRepresenting Book:The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life Source: The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life
“Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was like my father, whom my mother always critized for his cigarette habit and who always shouted back that she should feel guilty that he didn't let my mother speak her mind. Too little wood and you bent too quickly to listen to other people's ideas, unable to stand on your own. This was like my Auntie An-mei. Too much water and you flowed in too many different directions. like myself.” PeopleFeelsShouldMindLittlesPersonsMadeIdeasDifferentMotherFatherSpeakWaterFireFiveToo MuchHabitElementsWoodsGuiltyTemperCigaretteBentDifferent DirectionsBad TemperAuntie Author:Amy Tan
“It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.” WayMeanDifferentSidesIntentionFollowingOne Way Book:The Joy Luck Club: A Novel Source: The Joy Luck Club: A Novel
“Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.” ThinkingKnowsWantDifferentJesusQualityPicksCrabsJoy Luck Club Book:The Joy Luck Club: A Novel Source: The Joy Luck Club: A Novel
“That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love - that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost? Maybe you lost more maybe less, then thousand different things that come from your memory or imagination - and you do not know which is which, which was true, which is false.” KnowsPersonsDifferentLostLosesImaginationMemoriesWonderThousandDifferent ThingsSaddestSomeone You Love Book:The Kitchen God's Wife Source: The Kitchen God's Wife
“People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.” PeopleThinkingFirstsHas BeensDifferentMotherCasesTerribleFirst TimeTragedyUnhappyAlzheimerAlzheimer'sTerrible Tragedy Author:Amy Tan
