For unlike my mother, I did ...

For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.
For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.
 Amy Tan

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It really is all about believing in yourself: 80 per cent mental, 20 per cent physical.
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I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.
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You have inside you the capacity to invest your mental, emotional, and spiritual gifts in a way that glorifies God, impacts the world, and satisfies your own soul. I believe that-and I want you to believe it, too.
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The 'Goonies' are a close knit group. They believe in themselves, even though there are doubters throwing darts at them outside...'Goonies never say die.' That's pretty in line with the mentality of our team.
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I believe that there's no improvement if you have an inferiority complex and victim mentality.
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I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.
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 Amy Tan
But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.
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Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
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 Amy Tan
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.
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My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.
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 Amy Tan