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Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition.

When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'

You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.

How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: His Good list outstripped the Evil list; Good may always preponderate in this method of reckoning.

His Good list outstripped the Evil list; Good may always preponderate in this method of reckoning.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: My job is my own only land.

My job is my own only land.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: Gods you avoid won't hurt you.

Gods you avoid won't hurt you.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship.

People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: When these pictures burst, the stars drew yet further apart. Black space opened. She got to her feet to fight better

When these pictures burst, the stars drew yet further apart. Black space opened. She got to her feet to fight better

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: What does old look like? Sometimes I am wrinkled, sometimes not.

What does old look like? Sometimes I am wrinkled, sometimes not.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: I do not believe in old age. I do not believe in getting tired.

I do not believe in old age. I do not believe in getting tired.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.

It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: Perhaps women were once so dangerous they had to have their feet bound.

Perhaps women were once so dangerous they had to have their feet bound.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: Once you open your eyes in the water, you become a flying creature ... How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.

Once you open your eyes in the water, you become a flying creature ... How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: Adultery is extravagance.

Adultery is extravagance.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.

Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: But the men - hungry, greedy, tired of planting in dry soil - had been forced to leave the village in order to send food-money home.

But the men - hungry, greedy, tired of planting in dry soil - had been forced to leave the village in order to send food-money home.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: You can't eat straight A's.

You can't eat straight A's.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: For hours she lay on the ground, alternately body and space. Sometimes a vision of normal comfort obliterated reality:

For hours she lay on the ground, alternately body and space. Sometimes a vision of normal comfort obliterated reality:

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: Mothers who love their children take them along.

Mothers who love their children take them along.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.

Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me.

I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product.

When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: I have found things that I could have done better in 'The Woman Warrior.' But then I thought: Let the work of one's youth just stand.

I have found things that I could have done better in 'The Woman Warrior.' But then I thought: Let the work of one's youth just stand.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers.

When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.

There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: You're too young to decide to live forever.

You're too young to decide to live forever.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: Any merchant who advertises 'Honest Scales' must have been thinking about weighing them.

Any merchant who advertises 'Honest Scales' must have been thinking about weighing them.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: Probably all babies, having recently been nothing, have a tenuous hold on life.

Probably all babies, having recently been nothing, have a tenuous hold on life.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.

I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: And I had to get out of hating range.

And I had to get out of hating range.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is taking a daughter-in-law.

Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is taking a daughter-in-law.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the

When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.

Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.

Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: I was speaking well because I was talking to her; there are people who dry up language.

I was speaking well because I was talking to her; there are people who dry up language.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: It's the duty of artists to volunteer to do particle counting. Don't leave creation up to the accountants.

It's the duty of artists to volunteer to do particle counting. Don't leave creation up to the accountants.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: The Revolution put an end to prostitution by giving women what they wanted: a job and a room of their own. (1983: 61)

The Revolution put an end to prostitution by giving women what they wanted: a job and a room of their own. (1983: 61)

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets.

I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: The black well of sky and stars went out and out and out forever; her body and her complexity seemed to disappear.

The black well of sky and stars went out and out and out forever; her body and her complexity seemed to disappear.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: In a time of destruction, create something.

In a time of destruction, create something.

Maxine Hong Kingston quotes: Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, than neither can seeing.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, than neither can seeing.