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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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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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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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Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.
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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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I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.
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When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.
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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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You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
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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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i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay
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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 am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.
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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've come to believe that part of lovesickness comes from this conflict between control and desire. In love we have no control. Our hearts and minds are tormented, teased, enticed and delighted by the overwhelming strength of emotions that make us try to forget the real world.
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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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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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Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.
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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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