“Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.”

“Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung”

“Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.”

“Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself”

“Out of the woman's great brown breast the milk gushed forth for the child, milk as white as snow, and when the child suckled at the one breast it flowed like a fountain from the other, ans she let it flow. There was more than enough for the child, greedy though he was, life enough for many children, and she let it flow out carelessly, conscious of her abundance. There was always more. Sometimes she lifted her breast and let it flow out upon the ground to save her clothing, and it sank into the earth and made a soft, dark, rich spot in the field. The child fat and good-natured and ate of the inexhaustible life his mother gave him.”

“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. ”

“It was Wang Lung's marriage day.”