I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. Thats universal in womens friendships. – Lisa See
People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other. – Lisa See
And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age. – Lisa See
It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have – I guess youd call them beauty contests – where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing. – Lisa See
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin