Starvation Is A Shame And Disgrace To

Perhaps One Has To Be Very Old Before One Learns To Be Amused Rather Than Shocked.

Nothing And No One Can Destroy The Chinese People. They Are Relentless Survivors.

Just About Everything Significant In My Life Happened After I Passed Forty. I Was A Housewife And Mother, But Yearned To Be A Writer. I Worked At My Writing Whenever I Could Snatch A Moment, And I Assembled Several Manuscripts. I Was Just About Forty When My First Novel, East Wind, West Wind, Was Published. Then A Few Months Later Came The Good Earth. My Career Was Launched At Last, And It Has Given Me The Richest Possible Satisfaction

Chinese Are Wise In Comprehending Without Many Words What Is Inevitable And Inescapable And Therefore Only To Be Borne.

If I Have Learned Anything In My Long Life It Is To Be Grateful For Every Occasion When I Followed My Sympathies And Avoided My Antipathies.