Jung Chang I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit. – Jung Chang Academic Quotes Awarded Quotes China Quotes Died Quotes Mao Quotes Merit Quotes Nightmares Quotes Scholarships Quotes Study Quotes Terrible Quotes Time Quotes West Quotes I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet. I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.
China Mieville In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with ‘Dungeons and Dragons,’ so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart. – China Mieville
Alice Oswald It’s the stickiness of earth that makes it problematic – the way it stains your straps and ingrains your hands so you can’t quite tell where you start and stop. – Alice Oswald
Marie Corelli Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes. – Marie Corelli
Michelle Yeoh It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they’re destined to be. – Michelle Yeoh
Bernice KingFuture Continue to speak out against all forms of injustice to yourselves and others, and you will set a mighty example for your children and for future generations. – Bernice King
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