joy luck club

goodness- i forgot how much i love this movie. sat back in a quite house tonight and turned it on. some moments in this film just rip my heart out.... so related to my own life. no, i am not chinese, but yes- i am woman, and daughter, and mother, and wife. i cry everytime i see it. just so honest. so bold. one of my all time favorite movies, ever.....

heres why:

1. Losing him does not matter. It is you who will be found--and cherished.

2. That bad crab, only you tried to take it. Everybody else want best quality. You, your thinking different. Waverly took best-quality crab. You took worst, because you have best-quality heart. You have style no one can teach. Must be born this way.

3. Ying Ying: Do you know what you want? I mean, from him? Lena: Respect. Tenderness. Ying Ying: Then tell him now. And leave this lopsided house. Do not come back until he give you those things, with both hands open.

4. An-Mei: I tell you the story because I was raised the Chinese way. I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, and to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way. Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl, and I was born to my mother and I was born a girl, all of us like stairs, one step after another, going up, going down, but always going the same way. No, this cannot be, this not knowing what you're worth, this not begin with you. My mother not know her worth until too late - too late for her, but not for me. Now we will see if not too late for you, hmm?

5. Rose: You're not taking my house, you're not taking my daughter, you're not taking any part of me, because you don't know who I am. I died sixty years ago. I ate opium and I died for my daughter's sake. Now get out of my house!