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

> "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?"

- 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: 387
- 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/you-see-what

## More from this book

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

p. 9 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amy-tan/the-kitchen-gods-wife/whenever-im-with.md)