Quotes About Family

Anyone who tells you that the Yao people never care for their daughters is lying. We may be worthless. We may be raised for another family. But often we are loved and cherished, despite our natal families' best efforts not to have feelings for us.

There is only one perfect child in the world and every mother has him.

It's funny how in that moment I see things clearly. Am I beaten down? Yes. Have I allowed myself to become a victim? Somewhat. Am I afraid? Always. Does some part of me still long to fly away from this place? Absolutely. But I can't leave. Sam and I have built a life for Joy. It isn't perfect, but it's a life. My family's happiness means more to me that starting over again.

Miracles are everywhere, and as I watch my sister--forever, beautiful, forever my little sister--staring into the eyes of the one man she ever loved, I know that indeed things do return to the beginning. The world opens again, and I see a life of happiness without fear. I gaze at my family--complicated though it may be--and know that fate smiles on us.

Everyone knows that part of the spirit descends to the afterworld, while part of it remains with the family, but we have a special belief about the spirit of a young woman who has died before her marriage that goes contrary to this. She comes back to prey upon other unmarried girls--not to scare them but to take them to the afterworld with her so she might have company.

When she reaches the ground, she looks from the old woman to me. A moment of confusion. Then recognition. I know her too, because I've seen traces of her in my face in the mirror. My mother. My a-ma.

My writing is soaked with the tears of my heart, An invisible rebellion that no man can see. Let our life stories become tragic art. Oh, Mama, oh, sisters, hear me, hear me.

As the eldest daughter, I had always been responsible for my younger siblings. Now I had to provide their food and clothing and be a second mother to them. My father was no help. He was a kind man, but he shuddered under the added responsibility. Too often I found him outside, alone with his sadness. No man was built to shoulder the full weight of feeding and caring for his family. That was why he had a wife and daughters.

Parents exist in children,' Grandmother said to bolster my confidence. 'Your mother will always exist in you. She will give you strength wherever you go.

Blessings and worry, happiness and fear – this is a mother's love.

I used to think mothers-in-law are difficult the world over, but on that day I came to understand that they're simply unknowable.

Every mother must leave her children to work, and every mother suffers, bu we do it.

My mother had died in the sea, but we could never forget that it gave us life.

because sometimes it's just so damn hard to be a mother. We have to wait and wait and wait for our children to open their hearts to us. And if that doesn't work, we have to bide our time and look for the moment of weakness when we can sneak back into their lives and they will see us and remember us for the people who love them unconditionally.

I don't want her to either, which is exactly what I've been saying. Still, there's a part of me that hates that our family businesses- the very things that have kept Joy fed, clothed, and housed- are so embarrassing to her...We raised our children to be Americans, but what we wanted were proper Chinese sons and daughters.

We may look and act modern in many ways, but we can't escape what we are... obedient chinese daughters.

It's a Sun and Moon truth that if a husband sees his wife give birth, he might die from it.

We had a meeting where we were supposed to learn how to respond to jerks who ask things like When did you know you were adopted? Most people picture a scene where the parents sit you down and you find out who you are. I didn't need that meeting to know how to answer, because all I had to do was look in the mirror. When people ask me that question, I always say, When did you find out you weren't adopted? How do you know your mother is your birth mother?

Every mother must leave her children to work, and every mother suffers, but we do it.

Your mother will always exist in you. She will give you strength wherever you go.

No man was built to shoulder the full weight of feeding and caring for his family. That was why he had a wife and daughters.

Her house is the nest where she hides the joy, laughter, sorrows, and

wants to help," Clara says in her childish Jeju dialect. Young-sook watches the strangers try to assist her grandson as he loads the bags of algae onto the flatbed. Once everything is secured, she climbs behind her grandson and wraps her arms around his waist. She nudges

Yes, she had held her family together, but at what cost to herself.