There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Although later separated they remained married until Ratnaswamy's death in January 2003. In 1935 Han Suyin went to Brussels to study medicine. She began work as a typist at Peking Union Medical College in 1931 not yet fifteen years old.

She was a China-born Eurasian a physician and author of books in English and French on modern China novels set in East and Southeast Asia and autobiographical memoirs which covered the span of modern China. Han Suyin (simplified Chinese: 韩素音; traditional Chinese: 韓素音; pinyin: Hán Sùyīn) (12 September 1916 or 1917 – 2 November 2012) was the pen name of Elizabeth Comber born Rosalie Matilda Kuanghu Chou (Chinese: 周光瑚; pinyin: Zhōu Guānghú).