“Human friends, friends in hardship and in life, this is our pure love, love of mother and son.”
Albert Cohen (1895–1981) Swiss writer
Le livre de ma mère [The Book of My Mother] (1954)
“In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love.”
Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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