39 Quotes by Anchee Min

When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.

My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It's too fancy for me. My biggest goal was to be an office receptionist, answer phones. I didn't expect to go beyond that.

lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river.

There are a lot of things that immigrants, especially Chinese-Americans, want to share with their children, but there are a lot of things they don't want to share.

I understood that without English I would never get far, so my dream was to become a receptionist, and so I started to learn English from watching 'Sesame Street.'

If you can’t go back to your mother’s womb, you’d better learn to be a good fighter.

The sun doesn’t just hang on one family’s tree.

There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it’s in all the textbooks.