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A girl is like a young tree, she said. You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you. That is the only way to grow strong and straight. But if you bend to listen to other people, you will grow crooked and weak. You will fall to the ground with the first strong
wind
. And then you will be like a weed, growing wild in any direction, running along the ground until someone pulls you out and throws you away.
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I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the
wind
.
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Wise guy, he not go against
wind
. In Chinese we say, Come from South, blow with
wind
— poom! — North will follow. Strongest
wind
cannot be seen.
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What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person?... And then I realized it was the first time I could see the power of the
wind
. I couldn't see the
wind
itself, but I could see it carried water that filled the rivers and shaped the countryside.
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Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the
wind
out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you- not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again?
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I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest
wind
cannot be seen."
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Amy Tan
Born:
February 19, 1952
(age 73)
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