72 Quotes by Iris Chang

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.

I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.

The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.