Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded … - Amy Tan

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying.
-An-mei

So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. the pain that cut my spirit loose. I will hold that pain in my hand until it becomes hard and shiny, more clear. And then my fierceness can come back, my golden side, my black side. I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter's tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me, because this is the nature of two tigers. But I will win and giver her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter.

"What is a secret wish?"
"It is what you want but cannot ask."