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Amy Tan quotes about mother

American Novelist February 19, 1952

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Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was like my father, whom my mother always critized for his cigarette habit and who always shouted back that she should feel guilty that he didn't let my mother speak her mind. Too little wood and you bent too quickly to listen to other people's ideas, unable to stand on your own. This was like my Auntie An-mei. Too much water and you flowed in too many different directions. like myself. Amy Tan
I had always assumed we had an unspoken understanding about these things: that she didn't really mean I was a failure, and I really meant I would try to respect her opinions more. But listening to Auntie Lin tonight reminds me once agian: My mother and I never really understood one another. We translated each other's meanings and I seemed to hear less than what was said, while my mother heard more. No doubt she told Auntie Lin I was going back to school to get a doctorate. Amy Tan
I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese. Amy Tan
I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes. Amy Tan
Amy Tan quote: "I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my..."
I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person. Amy Tan
My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have. Amy Tan
My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day. Amy Tan
Amy Tan quote: "What use for? asks my mother, jiggling the table with her..."
What use for? asks my mother, jiggling the table with her hand. You put something else on top, everything fall down. Amy Tan
Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.-An-mei Amy Tan
Amy Tan quote: "For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I..."
For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me. Amy Tan
My mother and I never really understood one another. We translated each other's meanings and I seemed to hear less than what was said, while my mother heard more. Amy Tan

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