Lisa See Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.”

“And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.”

“I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.”

“I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.”

“I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.”

“I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.”

“I write what I'm interested in.”

“I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create many words out of one character.”

“Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept a secret by women in one very remote county in China for a thousand years. It's the only language that was invented and used by women to have been found anywhere in the world.”

“One of the things that's pretty unique about nu shu, when you look especially at these old letters and stories that have been saved, is that there are certain lines that are very standard that are used again and again. It's almost like a formula in a sense, so that these certain lines come up again and again.”