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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.
Lisa See
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Lisa See
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 18
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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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Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.
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I’ve never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn’t know that there might be another way to live, and I didn’t worry about it either.
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i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay
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There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang
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I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.
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How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?
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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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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
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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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In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I wanted to cling to her wings and soar, no matter how intimidated I was.
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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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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 think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That's universal in women's friendships.
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I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.
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Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.
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Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.
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People write to me all the time, and I write back.
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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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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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