Source: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 13, pg. 240
“The real, the unique misfortune: to see the light of day. A disaster which dates back to aggressiveness, to the seed of expansion and rage within origins, to the tendency to the worst which first shook them up.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
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