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If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.

• The Kitchen God’s Wife

To the missionaries, we were Girls of New Destiny. Each classroom had a big red banner embroidered with gold characters that proclaimed this. And every afternoon, during exercise, we sang our destiny in a song that Miss Towler had written, in both English and Chinese:

We can study, we can learn, We can marry whom we choose. We can work, we can earn, And bad fate is all we lose.

• The Bonesetter’s Daughter