#geisha

Oh I'm sure you're right," Auntie said. "Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever girl, and adaptable; you can see that from the shape of her ears. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#fiction #geisha #japan #memoirs #japan

What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done? ↗

— Arthur Golden

#eat #geisha #hair #how #i

It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#because #confusing #corresponds #culture #geisha

For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#hope #imagination

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#life #life

And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#dance #geisha #life

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#love #memoirs #woman #love

For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#i #like #look #mask #myself

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#college #culture #famous #father #geisha

Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#because #ended #fascinating #fellow #fiction