"The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me."

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Source : "A 'Cooked Seed' Sprouts After All, In America". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 12, 2013.

Anchee Min

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“One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.”
“We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.”

Source : "Your Behavior Creates Your Gender". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. January 13, 2011.
“Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.”
“The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.”
“My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.”
“Mostly, I believe an artist doesn't create something, but is there to sort through, to show, to point out what already exists, to put it into form and sometimes reformulate it.... I didn't invent anything, I indicated.”
“I have always loathed working out”
“I'm not someone who can sing anything. And my favorite singers aren't people whose voice you would say is amazing. I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan. None of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they're singing about is just as important as how they're singing it.”

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