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Xinran Quotes

Everybody says women are like water. I think it's because water is the source of life, and it adapts itself to its environment. Like women, water also gives of itself wherever it goes to nurture life.

Everybody says women are like water. I think it's because water is the source of life, and it adapts itself to its environment. Like women, water also gives of itself wherever it goes to nurture life.

Xinran
Thinking, Water, Giving

No one likes crying, but tears water our souls.

Xinran
Water, Soul, Tears
Xinran (2010). “Sky Burial”, p.164, Random House

The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through.

Xinran
Way, Our Future, Depends
Xinran (2012). “Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have.

Xinran
Want, Knows

No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books.

Xinran
Book, Water, Soul
Xinran (2010). “Sky Burial”, p.164, Random House

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