Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British journalist Xinran.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
Xuē Xīnrán is a British-Chinese journalist, author, speaker, and advocate for women's issues.
She was a popular radio personality in China with a call-in program named "Words on the Night Breeze" from 1989 to 1997. The program focused on women's issues and life stories. She was well known for travelling extensively in China to interview women for her work. In 1997, she moved to London and began writing stories of the women she met along her journeys. Her first book, The Good Women of China, was published in 2002, becoming an international bestseller. She frequently contributes to The Guardian and the BBC.
The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have.
No one likes crying, but tears water our souls.
No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books.
Everybody says women are like water. I think it's because water is the source of life, and it adapts itself to its environment. Like women, water also gives of itself wherever it goes to nurture life.
The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through.