"Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their……" — 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."
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41 Quotes by Maxine Hong Kingston
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Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar…
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There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.
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I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
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Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.
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The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch…
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I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.
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The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace,…
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And I had to get out of hating range.
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A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution.…
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You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'
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Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years,…
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Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound
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Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie.
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I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed…
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance…
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The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part…
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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
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Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
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Absolutely the United States should lead in space, for the survival of the United States. It's inspiring for the next…
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All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the…
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To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the…
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We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male…
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We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused…
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