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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Lisa See (Author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan)

“A single spark is not enough to warm a room nor is a single seed enough to grow a fruitful crop. Deep love – true heart love – must grow” (Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Quotes)

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“All the time, I looked out our lattice window. I watched the birds fly by. I followed the clouds on their travels. I studied the moon as it grew larger, then shrank. So much happened outside my window that I almost forgot what was happening inside that room.”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men’s decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“Anyone who tells you that the Yao people never care for their daughters is lying. We may be worthless. We may be raised for another family. But often we are loved and cherished, despite our natal families’ best efforts not to have feelings for us.”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

 “Her restraint and control taught me a lesson I have not strayed from to this day. You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“I had always thought it was her way of blinding herself to the messiness of the way we lived. Now I realised it was easier for her mind to go out through the air far above the clouds then to acknowledge the ugliness right before her eyes.”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“I have a whole life to tell; I have nothing left to lose and few to offend.”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“I now understand that we learned these songs and stories not just to teach us how to behave but because we would be living out variations of them over and over again throughout our lives.”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“I’ve never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn’t know that there might be another way to live, and I didn’t worry about it either.”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“If fire doesn’t raze the mountain, the land will not be fertile.”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I wanted to cling to her wings and soar, no matter how intimidated I was.”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“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.”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“It was easier for me to begin picking at Snow Flower’s faults than to feel the emotions raging inside of me.”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“My writing is soaked with the tears of my heart, an invisible rebellion that no man can see. Let our life stories become tragic art. Oh, Mama, oh, sisters, hear me, hear me.” (Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Quotes)

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman’s letter needed to include the usual complaints that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial.”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“She should be good, not complain, learn through her eyes and ears, and make her mother proud.”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“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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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“The human body is a miniature version of the universe – the eyes and ears are the sun and moon, breath is air, blood is rain.”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you.”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“The three most important powers are Heaven, Earth and Man. The three luminaries are the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. Opportunities given by Heaven are not equal to the advantages afforded by Earth, while the advantages of Earth do not match the blessings that come from harmony among men”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“When I knew I couldn’t suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging me to go one more hour, one more day, one more week, reminding me of the rewards I would have if I carried on a little longer. In this way, she taught me how to endure — not just the physical trials of footbinding and childbearing but the more torturous pain of the heart, mind, and soul.”

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“With her bold act, I realized the true purpose of our secret writing. It was not to compose girlish notes to each other or even to introduce us to the women in our husbands’ families. It was to give us a voice.”

Lisa See
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.”

Lisa See
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

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