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I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.
Lisa See
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Lisa See
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 18
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For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.
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Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.
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My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.
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Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love. Peony in Love
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My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.
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Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.
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May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other's frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we've had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.
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I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.
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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
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I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.
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Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions
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Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.
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I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.
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All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.
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And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.
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Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.
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When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love
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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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While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.
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