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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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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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I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.
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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 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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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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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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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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The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life.
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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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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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You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.
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There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang
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When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.
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Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.
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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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What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.
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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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Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions
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Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.
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