# Quote — Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife

> Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

- Author: [Amy Tan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amy-tan.md)
- Book: [The Kitchen God's Wife](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amy-tan/the-kitchen-gods-wife.md)
- Page: 9
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Amy_Tan#The_Kitchen_God's_Wife_(1991)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/amy-tan/the-kitchen-gods-wife/whenever-im-with

## More from this book

> "You see what power is — holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them! Besides, maybe it is true. Maybe Peanut and Little Yu's mother are now big Communists, who knows?"

p. 387 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amy-tan/the-kitchen-gods-wife/you-see-what.md)