Amy Tan Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.

  Amy Tan

  Daughter, Mother, Fear

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.40, Penguin

• Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

  Amy Tan

  Turtles, Joy, Sorrow

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.217, Penguin

• It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.

  Amy Tan

  Hate, Joy, Joy Luck Club

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club: A Novel”, p.190, Penguin

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