Amy Tan Quotes About Mothers

• Tenía seis años cuando mi madre me enseñó el arte de la fuerza invisible... "El viento más fuerte no se ve".

  Amy Tan

  Strength, Mother, Art

• And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.

  Amy Tan

  Daughter, Mother, Fear

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.40, Penguin

• Los clichés son estáticos, la emoción que hay detrás de ellos hace tiempo que se agotó. Si tienes la tentación de usarlos, aquí tienes un dicho de mi madre: Fang pi bu-cho, cho pi bu-fang. Básicamente se traduce como: "Los pedos fuertes no apestan, y los muy olorosos no hacen ruido". En otras palabras: Cuando estás lleno de frijoles, sólo soplas un montón de aire caliente. Si quieres tener un impacto real, sé letal pero silencioso. Ah, reconoce también la diferencia entre un mal cliché y una buena cita. El dicho de mi madre es una buena cita. Deberías usarla a menudo.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Real, Blow

• Sin embargo, algunos de mis amigos me dicen que entienden el 50 por ciento de lo que dice mi madre. Otros dicen que entienden entre el 80 y el 90 por ciento. Otros dicen que no entienden nada, como si hablara chino puro. Pero para mí, el inglés de mi madre es perfectamente claro, perfectamente natural. Es mi lengua materna. Su lenguaje, tal como yo lo oigo, es vívido, directo, lleno de observación e imágenes. Ese fue el idioma que me ayudó a dar forma a mi manera de ver las cosas, de expresarlas, de entender el mundo...

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Chinese, World

• Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like and what we should look like. Then we spend half of our life trying to be not like them, and then we reach another part of our lives where we see these things we can't get rid of.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Teaching, Trying

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.

  Amy Tan

  Madre

• La gente piensa que es una tragedia terrible cuando alguien tiene Alzheimer. Pero en el caso de mi madre, es diferente. Mi madre ha sido infeliz toda su vida. Por primera vez en su vida, es feliz.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Thinking, Alzheimer's

• 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.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Daughter, Pain

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.252, Penguin

• Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh. -An-mei

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Skins, Flesh

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.48, Penguin

• Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was like my father, whom my mother always critized for his cigarette habit and who always shouted back that she should feel guilty that he didn't let my mother speak her mind. Too little wood and you bent too quickly to listen to other people's ideas, unable to stand on your own. This was like my Auntie An-mei. Too much water and you flowed in too many different directions. like myself.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Father, Ideas

• Una niña es como un árbol joven, dijo. Debes mantenerte erguida y escuchar a tu madre, que está a tu lado. Sólo así crecerás fuerte y recta. Pero si te inclinas para escuchar a otras personas, crecerás torcida y débil. Caerás al suelo con el primer viento fuerte. Y entonces serás como una mala hierba, creciendo salvaje en cualquier dirección, corriendo por el suelo hasta que alguien te arranque y te tire.

  Amy Tan

  Girl, Mother, Running

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.191, Penguin

• Porque, a diferencia de mi madre, yo no creía que pudiera ser lo que quisiera. Sólo podía ser yo.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Believe, Joy Luck Club

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.142, Penguin

• Pero ganaré y le daré mi espíritu, porque así es como una madre ama a su hija. -Ying Ying

  Amy Tan

  Daughter, Mother, Winning

• Siempre que estoy con mi madre, siento como si tuviera que pasarme todo el tiempo evitando minas terrestres.

  Amy Tan

  Mamá, Hija, Madre

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.15, Penguin

• I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually, thought neither of us knew it at the time, chess games... "Come from the South, blow from the wind - poom! - North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen."

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Art, Blow

  "The Joy Luck Club". Book by Amy Tan, 1989.

• 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?

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Husband, Fall

• My sisters and I stand, arms around each other, laughind and wiping the tears from each others eyes. The flash of the Polaroid goes off and my family hands me the snapshot. My sisters and I watch quietly together, eager to see what develops. Ghe grey-greensurface changes to the bright colors of our three images, sharpening and deepening all at once. And although we don't speak, I know we all see it: Together we look like our mother. Her same eyes, her same mouth, open in suprise to see, her long-cherished wish.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Eye, Hands

• Siempre había supuesto que teníamos un acuerdo tácito sobre estas cosas: que ella no quería decir realmente que yo fuera un fracasado, y que yo quería decir realmente que intentaría respetar más sus opiniones. Pero escuchar a la tía Lin esta noche me recuerda una vez más: Mi madre y yo nunca nos entendimos. Tradujimos los significados de la otra y yo parecía oír menos de lo que se decía, mientras que mi madre oía más. Sin duda le dijo a la tía Lin que yo iba a volver a la universidad para doctorarme.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, School, Mean

• I take a few quick sips. "This is really good." And I mean it. I have never tasted tea like this. It is smooth, pungent, and instantly addicting. "This is from Grand Auntie," my mother explains. "She told me 'If I buy the cheap tea, then I am saying that my whole life has not been worth something better.' A few years ago she bought it for herself. One hundred dollars a pound." "You're kidding." I take another sip. It tastes even better.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Mean, Years

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.45, Penguin

• How I saw in her my own true nature. What was beneath my skin. Inside my bones... Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain. This is how a daughter honors her mother. It is shou so deep it is in your bones. The pain of the flesh is nothing. The pain you must forget. Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother before her. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.

  Amy Tan

  Hija, Madre, Dolor

• I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Eye, Light

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

• I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

  Amy Tan

  Madre, Pensamiento, Gente

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

• She [my mother] said that if I listened to her, later I would know what she knew: where true words came from, always from up high, above everything else. And if I didn't listen to her, she said my ear would bend too easily to other people, all saying words that had no lasting meaning, because they came from the bottom of their hearts, where their own desires lived, a place where I could not belong.

  Amy Tan

  Madre, Corazón, Gente

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.185, Penguin

• My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Chinese, Female

• My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Teaching, Ghost

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