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Lived Quotes by 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.
- 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…
- Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded…
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