My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It's too fancy for me. My biggest goal was to be an office receptionist, answer phones. I didn't expect to go beyond that.
If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river. - Anchee Min
If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river.
- Anchee Min
When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago. - Anchee Min
When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.
To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me. - Anchee Min
To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.
If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter. - Anchee Min
If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.
lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. - Anchee Min
lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me. - Anchee Min
The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.
I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what kind of power was his? He was a prisoner of himself. - Anchee Min
I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what kind of power was his? He was a prisoner of himself.
Do you know who Karl Marx is? He is this strange little man, long dead, who lived his narrow little life, and somehow managed by the power of his way… - Anchee Min
Do you know who Karl Marx is? He is this strange little man, long dead, who lived his narrow little life, and somehow managed by the power of his way…
I think about giving up. I almost do. - Anchee Min
I think about giving up. I almost do.
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