Amy Tan Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

12 Famous Quotes by Amy Tan
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“If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.”
Attitude Quotes
“My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me (Tan is the author of what became The Joy Luck Club).”
Teaching Quotes
“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”
Miscellaneous 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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Saving Fish From Drowning”
Miscellaneous Quotes
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