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

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

How unlike a dead fish a live fish is. — Maxine Hong Kingston

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

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

My job is my own only land. — Maxine Hong Kingston

Gods you avoid won't hurt you. — Maxine Hong Kingston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Adultery is extravagance. — Maxine Hong Kingston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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