"Not many women got to live out the……" — Maxine Hong Kingston
"Not many women got to live out the daydream of women—to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself."
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Maxine Hong Kingston
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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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Waiting in line is a great opportunity to meet people, daydream, or play.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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The real thing, when done right , is always better than a daydream
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I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream.…
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I daydream all the time, and I like that quality.
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If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have…
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I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.
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People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
— Gaston Bachelard
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