37 Quotes by Noel Marie Fletcher

It was breathtaking. It felt like being inside the beating heart of that pulsating, exotic nation.

Not agreeing with something that happened in history or with another person’s traditions doesn’t provide license to eradicate or vilify entire aspects of the past.

In this eyewitness story, we meet Tzu-hsi in the twilight of her reign. Advanced in age, the Empress on the Dragon Throne is no longer the young beauty whose skill at seduction and aptitude for court intrigue saw her rise from a lowly Imperial concubine to the second most powerful place under the Hsien-feng Emperor.

No lack of time, strength or money shall prevent me from doing anything that I want to do,” was Sarah Macnaughtan’s lifelong motto, first uttered in her younger years. A compassionate and daring woman ahead of her time who stood barely over 5 feet tall, Sarah let no obstacles become roadblocks in her life.

You, too, can observe the beauty of flowers and nature through the windows of your life if you are willing to open them.

Despite it all, there were heroes who rose above their circumstances. Those who reached out to people of another race with compassion and even love.

Much older than myself, Martin was a distinguished and handsome career journalist who worked at the same newspaper I did.

He told me about being in school in Shanghai during the 1930s and 1940s where he played a Hawaiian guitar, wore a lei with his friends and sang in nightclubs.

He found all of this very cool, jumping right in to join me as we got down to the serious business of Chinese cuisine.