Asian American Women

Famous quotes containing the words asian, american and/or women:

“If he roars at you as you’re dyin’
You’ll know it is the Asian Lion.”
—Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)

“There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.”
—Umberto Eco (b. 1932)

“Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)