Amy Tan Quotes

"Memory feeds imagination."
-Amy Tan in Imagination quotes.

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"I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water."
-Amy Tan

"In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you."
-Amy Tan

"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."
-Amy Tan

"Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. The Kitchen God's Wife."
-Amy Tan

"You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!"
-Amy Tan in Power quotes.

"People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. ... For the first time in her life, she's happy."
-Amy Tan

"Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument."
-Amy Tan

"Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with."
-Amy Tan in Language quotes.