7 Quotes & Sayings By Hillary Wen

Hillary Wen is the author of Love & Marriage in Chinese, which features a compilation of more than 100 stories from readers on how their marriages have been shaped by their upbringing in China. She also co-authored China's Cool Mothers with her mother Hillary Wen, a bestselling parenting book in China. In addition to writing books on Chinese parenting, Hillary Wen has covered parenting topics for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN.com and Parenting magazine.

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I am a woman who’s passionate about life. Perhaps too full of passion for the majority of the world to understand. I lust for adventure and stories; I feel everything. I’m a lover and a fighter. I fight for what I love and I love what I fight for. I yearn for what is more than life, and I live beyond that yearning. Hillary Wen
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I’ve been lucky enough to cross paths with these angels who seem to brush the dust off my wings so effortlessly. These wonderful people I don’t and will never know. I want to be one of them. I want to be many of them. Radiating, resonating, finding lost souls and then exhaling magic. Hillary Wen
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I am obsessed with making every moment of my life full of value and substance. I’m constantly fighting for miracle and adventure, and everyone around me tells me to just enjoy life and stop fighting. Then I realized– I AM the adventure, and I AM the miracle. I’m fighting for myself, and I will NEVER give up fighting for who I am. If the greatest adventure is life, and the purest miracle is this very moment, then what the hell am I even waiting for? . Hillary Wen
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I’m an artist; I do not destroy, but create scars. And above that, I am an inventor of new ways to create them. Hillary Wen
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The best moments in reading are when you come across your own suppressed emptiness. You stand face to face with a character in your book, a person you never met, someone even who is long dead… And you finally realize that the book is not what you’ve been reading. Hillary Wen
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I may not have wings, but my hands do a better job in wiping away the tears anyway. Hillary Wen