Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.
Amy TanRead
Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!
Interpretation
The quote highlights the dichotomy of familial expectations versus personal autonomy in daughters.
Amy Tan's quote reflects the struggle between traditional expectations and personal freedom faced by daughters. It emphasizes the tension that exists within relationships, especially in cultures that may value obedience over individuality, thereby provoking thought on the balance between being dutiful and authentic to oneself.
In practice
In a speech addressing cultural values during a family event.
Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.
Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.
You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Whoβs saved? Whoβs not?
I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.
Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you- not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again?
And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that remained unchecked, like a betrayal that was now unbreakable. So I never found a way to ask her why she had hoped something so large that failure was inevitable. And even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most: Why had she given up hope?
The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other. The goal of marriage is unity and oneness, as well as self-development. Paradoxically, the more we serve one another, the greater is our spiritual and emotional growth.
Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
In many ways, a song-writing partnership is like a marriage. Apart from just liking each other, a lyricist and a composer should be able to spend long periods of time together - around the clock if need be - without getting on each other's nerves. Their goals, outlooks, and basic philosophies should be similar.
I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.
Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.
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