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1 " That's what I like about Linda: she might look like Harrods on the outside but on the inside Linda's straight-up TJ MAXX-hobo without the chic. "
― Lauren Ho , Last Tang Standing
2 " Tears sprang, unbidden, to my beady, plebeian eyes. That so much beauty was possible in the heart of this stone-and-concrete city, that it should be owned by one person, while I paid almost half my salary and almost all my waking hours for not even a hundredth of this space—it hurt. How could this be what my life had become about? "
3 " 25 a.m. I now know all the types of intestinal worms you can get and how to get them. 12:27 a.m. How to get Genevieve to drink from muddy swamp water? How to ensure the swamp water sample contains eggs of flukes? 12:33 a.m. How to get water from a lake containing Guinea worm, surely the Lamborghini of parasitic worms? "
4 " It’s strange, isn’t it, how this form of racism is still accepted under the guise of ensuring that the new addition to your family has a ‘similar cultural background and value system’? "
5 " Most Chinese parents, no matter where they are in the world, want their kids to bring home a mate of:* Chinese ethnicity (trade-offs are tolerated in some families, but rare--however, likelihood of acceptance increases inversely the longer the errant offspring in question remains single).* High earning capacity and/or wealth: MD or similar (Lawyer, Investment Banker, Consultant"). Otherwise, being rich and successful entrepreneur is also acceptable; legit royalty is, of course welcome. "
6 " Do you know you can’t wait forever to have babies, otherwise you are pretty much playing Russian roulette with whatever makes it out of your collapsing birth canal?”; "
7 " And then one day you wake up and you’ll find that your womb has become a prune! "
8 " ... we couldn't decide if we wanted to string each other's intestines like fairy lights over the walls or smush our genitals together. "
9 " Why did mothers always think that if they recited random details about a person you’d never met in your life, you’d somehow magically know what they were talking about? "
10 " until the son has come on board and has had a chance to decide on the pending investments, "
