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  1. Lisa See _ Shanghai Girls

    But then this is how it is for women everywhere. You experience one lapse in conscience, in how low you think you'll go, in what you'll accept, and pretty soon you're at the bottom
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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Lisa See _ Shanghai Girls

    We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.
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  5. 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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  6. Lisa See _ Shanghai Girls

    Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.
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  7. 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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  8. Lisa See _ Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

    Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.
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  9. 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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  10. Lisa See _ Peony in Love

    In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.
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  11. Lisa See _ Peony in Love

    He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.
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  12. Lisa See _ Shanghai Girls

    We hug, but there are no tears. For every awful thing that's been said and done, she is my sister. Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life. She is the only person left in the world who shares my memories of our childhood, our parents, our Shanghai, our struggles, our sorrows, and, yes, even our moments of happiness and triumph. My sister is the one person who truly knows me, as I know her. The last thing May says to me is 'When our hair is white, we'll still have our sister love.
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