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“That was the night, in the kitchen, that I realized I was no better than who I was… And I no longer felt angry at Waverly. I felt tired and foolish, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind and discover there was no one there.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 12, pg. 207

“You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.”

Amy Tan The Kitchen God's Wife

Source: The Kitchen God's Wife (1991), p. 387

“Look at this face. Do you see my foolish hope?”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 16, pg. 283

“I was writing for businesses. I think my mother was a little skeptical in the beginning, but fortunately, as a free-lance writer I was successful almost immediately. And so she was very proud, because she measured success in terms of money, which is what I started to do as well. My goal then, became to increase the amount of money that I made each month. Not simply each year, but each month — I mean, talk about pressure — to have more billable hours each month. So that by the end of my third year of being a free-lance writer, I was billing 90 hours a week. I had no time to sleep. I had no life. People said I was crazy, that I was a workaholic. And I couldn't understand how it was that I had these wonderful clients, and I was making all this money, and I wasn't happy and I didn't feel successful. That's when I started to write fiction.”

American Acheivement interview (1996)

“I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won'ts. I won't let her change me, I promised myself. I won't be what I'm not.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 8, pg. 134

“Why are you attracted only to Chinese nonsense?”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 15, pg. 259

“Your father is not my first husband. You are not those babies.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 1, pg. 26

“Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 2, pg. 48

“I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 8, pg. 154