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For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she was in a very relaxed, understanding environment. I was very sympathetic towards her. ↗

— Jung Chang

#anyone #atmosphere #environment #heart #her

I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet. ↗

— Jung Chang

#baby #climb #feet #i #i remember

I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about. ↗

— Jung Chang

#accept #because #century #chinese #come

We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves. ↗

— Jung Chang

#consequently #did #government #human #human beings

When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family. ↗

— Jung Chang

#case #chairman #children #china #differed

While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister. ↗

— Jung Chang

#economic #famine #i #mismanagement #more

They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#entertainment world #just #show #vulnerable #wanted

For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold. ↗

— Michael Chang

#events #french #french open #glued #i

For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people's faces. ↗

— Michael Chang

#faces #i #i think #lord #me

I just feel like it would be so against my personality to have this struggle in tennis and just give up. I know it's not me, not who I am, and that would probably affect other parts of my life. ↗

— Michael Chang

#against #am #feel #give #i