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Gish Jen quotes: Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.

Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.

Gish Jen quotes: Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

Gish Jen quotes: What's more, he was going to have a full American breakfast with bacon and eggs, none of this continental bullshit.

What's more, he was going to have a full American breakfast with bacon and eggs, none of this continental bullshit.

Gish Jen quotes: These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.

These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.

Gish Jen quotes: A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

Gish Jen quotes: Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.

Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.

Gish Jen quotes: Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.

Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.

Gish Jen quotes: There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.

There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.

Gish Jen quotes: Of course he bothers me. He's my husband.

Of course he bothers me. He's my husband.

Gish Jen quotes: It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!

It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!

Gish Jen quotes: He was not what he made up his mind to be. A man was the sum of his limits: freedom only made him see how much so. America was no

He was not what he made up his mind to be. A man was the sum of his limits: freedom only made him see how much so. America was no America.

Gish Jen quotes: I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

Gish Jen quotes: There is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

There is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

Gish Jen quotes: A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

Gish Jen quotes: I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

Gish Jen quotes: He was like a nation in crisis, looking back, and back and back - its history might be ugly, but its past shone perfect.

He was like a nation in crisis, looking back, and back and back - its history might be ugly, but its past shone perfect.

Gish Jen quotes: I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.

I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.

Gish Jen quotes: For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga.

For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga.

Gish Jen quotes: I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.

I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.