#geisha

What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done? ↗

— Arthur Golden

#eat #geisha #hair #how #i

It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#because #confusing #corresponds #culture #geisha

For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#hope #imagination

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#life #life

And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#dance #geisha #life

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#love #memoirs #woman #love

For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#i #like #look #mask #myself

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#college #culture #famous #father #geisha

Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#because #ended #fascinating #fellow #fiction

I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about -- the tiny hole through the roof or the bottom of the box. There's no doubt it's the most versatile of the five elements. It can wash away earth; it can put out fire; it can wear a piece of metal down and sweep it away. Even wood, which is its natural complement, can't survive without being nurtured by water. And yet, you haven't drawn on those strengths in living your life, have you? ↗

— Arthur Golden

#change