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

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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Memory feeds imagination.

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

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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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

—A. Bartlett Giamatti

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

—Marcus Aurelius

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Desire creates the power.

—Rebecca West

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

—Hugh Elliott

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All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.

—Allegra Kent

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