Amy Tan Quotes:
Ocupation: Film writer
Life: b. February 19, 1952
Birthday: February 19
So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. the pain that cut my spirit loose. I will hold that pain in my hand until it becomes hard and shiny, more clear. And then my fierceness can come back, my golden side, my black side. I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter's tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me, because this is the nature of two tigers. But I will win and giver her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter.
source: Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.252, Penguin
topic: Mother, Daughter, Pain, Tough Skin, I Will Win, Fierceness
