I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success, by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.
-- Amy Tan, (Feb 19 1952-____), US novelist; She wrote The Joy Luck Club, 1989; The Kitchen God's Wife, 1991; and The Hundred Secret Senses, I995.