“There is time on this greener earth for girls to ripen into themselves; what they'll do with that is beyond anyone's knowing, seeing as they are not limited to anger versus dinner, seriousness versus sentiment, survival versus all life's rampancy. They can choose.” WomenGirlsComing Of Age Book:Land of Milk and Honey Source: Land of Milk and Honey
“I refused to be stuck. In Pasaje, California. In the smallness of my mother's life. In a fixed notion of my cooking, my abilities, my worth as ascribed to my Chineseness my Asianness my smallness my womanness my perpetual foreignness--myself.” LifeWomenLabelsChineseAsianAssumptionsForeignnessTags Book:Land of Milk and Honey Source: Land of Milk and Honey