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