“When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if...” — Amy Chua Quote

“When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description.”

“I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they don't run. They really act up.”

“What the Chinese parent is conveying to the child is not that 'you've got to get A's or else I won't like you.' On the contrary, it's, 'I believe in you so much, I know that you can be excellent.'”

“We at the Women's March tried intersectionality, and we were the group that said we're going to do it right, and we're going to defy our women-of-color elders who told us, 'We did this with the white woman before, and it doesn't work.'”

“But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.”

“I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.”