I love my daughter. She and I have shared my body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since.

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About Amy Tan

Portrait of Amy Tan

Amy Ruth Tan (born February 19, 1952) is an American author best known for her novel The Joy Luck Club (1989), which was adapted into a 1993 film.

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Memory feeds imagination.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

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You wake up one day and say, "You know what, I don't think I ever need to sleep or have sex again." Congratulations, you're ready to have children.

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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

—Sammy Davis, Jr.

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The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

—Polly Berrien Berends

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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

—Dorothy Parker

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