"[My father] sure as hell was not jumping with joy and support when I said I wanted to be a writer. My mother cried for weeks and threatened to tell Stanford I was a convicted criminal so they would revoke my admission if I didn’t promise that I would not try to be a writer. I didn’t promise and my mother never made good on hers. They were scared for me. . ."
~~from "They Pretend To Be Us While Pretending We Don't Exist" by Jenny Zhang
~~from "They Pretend To Be Us While Pretending We Don't Exist" by Jenny Zhang
