Lisa See is an American writer and novelist. Her Chinese-American family (See has one Chinese great-grandparent) has had a great impact on her life and work.
It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd 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. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
