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Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems. — Maxine Kumin

You do realize Kingsley is forty-five, yes?" "I told them," Nora said. "Age is only a number," Angie said. "So is sixty-nine," Maxine said. — Tiffany Reisz

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

I figured anything Maxine Rothaus called rough was, in fact, vicious and lawless and inclined to eat its own young. — Melissa Jensen

The only way to keep a secret in Washington, if you are the one person who knows it, is never to tell another living soul. — Maxine Cheshire

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

Imagination is the capacity to think of things as if they could be otherwise. — Maxine

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

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

Romance is everything to turn it into a cause for given is priceless — Maxine Wilson-Perry

Cherish your wilderness. — Maxine Kumin

The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket. — Maxine

Wipe your mouth,
there's still a tiny bit of bullshit around your lips. — John Wagner

When forces of nature are involved, fate gets all the blame. — Maxine Clair

UTSL, which Maxine at first takes for an anagram of LUST or possibly SLUT but later learns is Unix for Use The Source, Luke. — Thomas Pynchon

To look at possibility is to be free. — Maxine

What can an outsider know, except/the shell of things? — Maxine Kumin

I am forever on the way — Maxine Greene

Everything pays for growing tame. — Maxine Kumin

Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going. — Maxine Kumin

God serves the choosy. They know what to want ... — Maxine Kumin

The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world. — Maxine Greene

Can it be I am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentuchy, looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A & P? — Maxine Kumin

A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words. — Maxine Kumin

I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach. — Maxine Kumin

Nature is a catchment of sorrows. — Maxine Kumin

Any of those priests even sniff at you wrong, you fuck them over until they see Jesus. — Marjorie M. Liu

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

Riot is the voice of the unheard. — Maxine Waters

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

Life will do anything for a living. — Maxine Kumin

A teacher in search of his/her own freedom may be the only kind of teacher who can arouse young persons to go in search of their own — Maxine Greene

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

Maxine recoils, only partly out of the classic accountant's allergy to real folding money — Thomas Pynchon

I don't see white police officers slamming the heads of little white boys into police cars. — Maxine Waters

Poetry
makes nothing happen.
It survives
in the valley of its saying. — Maxine Kumin

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them. — Maxine Kumin

Love is like a roller coaster. When it's good, you don't want to stop and when it's not ... you want to throw up. — Maxine

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

I don't think of color, I think that anyone wants a master of their skill and be successful knows no color. — Maxine Powell

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

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

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

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

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old — Maxine Kumin

Meanwhile let us cast one shadow in air and water. — Maxine Kumin

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

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

I am what I am not yet. — Maxine Greene

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

What is more likely? That tomorrow will be called 'Thursday' or that Maxine Waters will play the race card in her ethics investigation? — Jonah Goldberg

By today's standards, if you go by the early morning TV misery shows, my broken home family of mixed parentage siblings was quite normal. — Hailey Giblin

We do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Frank Raines. — Maxine Waters

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

People get confidential at midnight. — Maxine Kumin

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

All a singer needs is voice and expression anything else you have is an asset to your profession. — Maxine Powell

You cannot be successful and continue to be a victim. — Maxine Waters

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story. — Maxine Kumin

[On social climbing:] Everything that goes up must come down. — Maxine Cheshire

If you stay ready, there's no need to get ready when an opportunity presents itself. — Maxine Phillips

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

After a good night sleep, I wake up the next day, and I say, 'Come on, Tea Party, let's get it on.' — Maxine

Part of teaching is helping people create themselves. — Maxine Greene

To build is to dwell. — Maxine Kumin

I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion. — Maxine Waters

Love, we are a small pond. — Maxine Kumin

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

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

So many poems you go into and come up empty. — Maxine Kumin

It is important to act as if bearing witness matters. — Maxine Kumin

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

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

That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city. — Maxine Waters

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

This liberal is all about socializing- umm I mean ... — Maxine Waters

Leeky Shortz says "Live life like your arse is on fire! — Maxine Mansfield

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth. — Maxine Kumin

Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita — Maxine

My favorite birthday game is Pin the Cleanup on the guests. — Maxine

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

Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do? — Maxine Kumin

How does he support Clinton's urban agenda? He doesn't know what it is. — Maxine Waters

This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell. — Maxine Waters

And the heart gets watered and recovers itself. There is hope, everywhere there is hope. — Maxine Swann

There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in Manhattan. — Maxine Kumin

If you use a positive word, the corners of your lips go upward and it makes you smile. — Maxine Powell

Early identification of your God-given abilities helps you to become happier and successful earlier in life. — Maxine Phillips

And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life. — Maxine Kumin

Having an achievement mindset is your competitive advantage — Maxine Phillips

Walking is a daily experience and a lifetime journey. — Maxine Bigby Cunningham

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

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

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

Our Parents were gods and monsters at the same time. Maybe we're all like that- gods and monsters — Maxine Paetro

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

The time on either side of now stands fast. — Maxine Kumin

To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted. — Maxine Greene