Quotes Flashcards
“I offer the real Americans my consolations that they should be compelled to do that which is against their principles.”
Mrs. Spring Fragrance
“If you were a scholar you would have no time to read American poetry and American newspapers.”
The Inferior Woman
“Sooner would I, O heart of my heart, that the light of thine eyes were also quenched, than that thou shouldst be contaminated with the wisdom of the new.”
The Wisdom of the New
“Pan, don’t you see that you have got to decide what you will be—Chinese or white? You cannot be both.”
It’s Wavering Image
“‘Oh!’ I cried, ‘I am a narrow-minded woman. All I care for is my husband to love me and be kind to me, for life to be pleasant and easy, and to be able to help a wee bit the poor and sick around me.”
The Story of the one White Woman Who Married a Chinese
“The American people think higher. If only more of them lived up to what they thought, the Chinese would not be so confused in trying to follow their leadership.”
Her Chinese Husband
“When a bird is about to die, its notes are sad.”
The Americanizing of Pau Tsu
“There cannot be any law that would keep a child from its mother!”
In the Land of the Free
“Don’t believe a word they say! Their words are sweet, but, my child, their deeds are bitter.”
American Indian Stories : Impressions of an Indian Childhood
“The little taste of victory did not satisfy a hunger in my heart.”
The School Days of an Indian Girl
“Wearing a foreigner’s dress, I walked, a stranger, into my father’s village.”
The Soft-Hearted Sioux
“Let the father of the dead man choose the mode of torture or taking of life.”
The Trial Path
“I am a Dakota woman!”
A Warriors Daughter
I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.
The Fall of the House of Usher
To an anomalous species of terror I found him a bounden slave.
The Fall of the House of Usher
