Quotes About Tradition

ceremony brought the quiescent back to life

But the Mohawk call themselves the Kanienkeha - People of the Flint - and flint does not melt easily into the great American melting pot

The Wisdom of the Elders

It's different for guys. They don't feel the same way about proms that girls do. Girls see it as a chance to feel like a princess. Guys see it as a chance to have sex.

Her father had grown up with The Tonys; Tony "From-Down-The-Block" LoMonaco, "Pigeon" Tony Lucia, and Tony "Two Feet" Pensiera, which got shortened to "Feet," so even his nickname had a nickname.

Mary had been raised in a family where blood was as thick as tomato sauce.

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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.

You may not know this, but the cold-water stress that the haenyeo endure is greater than for any other human group in the world.

I was a haenyeo—independent and resilient—but I'd missed my husband.

Stories tell us how we should live.

When you lose your home country, what do you preserve and what do you abandon?

a traditional Cantonese gift: a tin of imported Danish cookies.

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.

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My father always said I was a jade maiden and my future husband was a golden boy

Joy doesn't smart-tongue him. It's not because he tries to control her as a proper Chinese father should or that she's an obedient Chinese daughter. Instead, she's like a pearl in his palm - forever precious; to Joy, he's the solid ground on which she walks - forever steady and reliable.

My bound feet were extremely beautiful—my best feature—and I took great pride in them. Ordinarily I paid strict attention to Willow's ministrations, making sure that my deep crease was fully cleaned, calluses cut away, any fragments of broken bone that poked through my skin sanded down, and my nails kept as short as possible.

This is how things were: heavyhearted, but done in the traditional manner. THE

Raising a girl and marrying her off is like building a fancy road for others to use.

The memories of the agony you felt during your footbinding will never leave completely. There will be days from now until you die when the anguish will visit—if you've stood too long or walked too far, if the weather is about to change, if you don't take proper care of your feet.

Grace put her purse on the floor. "My mother says you must never do that," Ruby chastised. "Mine too," I agreed. "Do you want all your money to run out of your purse?