The Joy Luck Club Quotes & Sayings

It never occurred to me that I needed to say that I was gay. I simply am. Anyone who knows me or who's been around me ten minutes knows it too. — Michael Jeter

The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose, and now look!
it is too beautiful to eat. — Amy Tan

I am ashamed she is ashamed. Because she is my daughter and I am proud of her, and I am her mother but she is not proud of me. — Amy Tan

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate. — Amy Tan

Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain. — Amy Tan

We are asked by science to believe that the entire universe sprang from nothingness, and at a single point and for no discernible reason. This notion is the limit case for credulity. In other words, if you can believe this, you can believe anything. — Terence McKenna

Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child. — Donna Karan

I have always known a thing before it happens. — Amy Tan

Even if I could live forever," she said to the baby, "I still don't know which way I would teach you. I was once so free and innocent. I too laughed for no reason."
"But later I threw away my foolish innocence to protect myself. And then I taught my daughter, your mother, to shed her innocence so she would not be hurt as well. — Amy Tan

Sunday night meant, in the dark, wintry, rainy Midlands ... anywhere where two creatures might stand and squeeze together and spoon ... Spooning was a fine art, whereas kissing and cuddling are calf-processes. — D.H. Lawrence

People talk about how fast life can go from good to bad. How on day you're happy, everything is going fine, and then something happens. Someone dies or someone leaves. There's an illness or an accident. Life as you know it slips away. But it can got the other way too. You can go from god-awful to pretty OK in a single day. That's what happened to us, and it was just as jarring. — Laura M. Flynn

But even brave people are afraid on occasion. Sometimes fear can protect us from being too foolish or reckless. — Jody Hedlund

All Americans knew was 'The Joy Luck Club' and children of dry cleaners trying to assimilate. The Asia that I was seeing was a world of people who are incredibly sophisticated, and I wanted to represent that side. — Kevin Kwan

And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood. — Amy Tan

I heard recently that I used to date Patrick Swayze. — Davey Havok

And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction. — Amy Tan