Bound Quote by Maxine Hong Kingston Download Open image “Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound” — Maxine Hong Kingston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bound Bounds Dangerous Dangerous Feet Feet Feet Bound Inspirational Love Women Dangerous
So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries. — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Why do women have smaller feet than men? So they can stand closer to the kitchen sink. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My, my, what is the world coming to that women should have feet? Even large ones” — Rachel Heffington Copy Share Image
There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little,… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves? — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“But her greatest assets were her bound feet, called in Chinese "three-inch golden lilies" (san-tsun-gin-lian). This meant she walked "like a tender young willow… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
There are millions of women all around the world who are in dangerous, terrifying situations. It's up to us as storytellers to give people… — Alex O'Loughlin Copy Share Image
“What are you going to do for a living? Yea, you're going to have to work because you can't be a housewife. Somebody has… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
The way I'm going now is to focus on peace, to create peace. As Sister Corita said, "I don't go to anti-war rallies. I… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment. — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
“The villagers were speeding up the circling of events because she was too shortsighted to see that her infidelity had already harmed the village,… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product. — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
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… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty,… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
“Upon Good Earth, lay the body down, open the mouth wide, let song rush through.” — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with so little art… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Never before did I feel so bound by the chains of the soul. Never before was there such pain of ripping my heart apart… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
“If you surrender your free will, then someone is bound to take the reins and lead you to a place that is not of… — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
I am bound to get carried away by anyone who approaches me with a good script. — Soha Ali Khan Copy Share Image
One of the first places where I started to respond to song lyrics was in reggae music. A lot of what I was responding… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
Canada's extraordinary success is that we have bound together a vast country with a set of shared ideas and beliefs. — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
From my mother I learned just how violent and unquenchable a woman's loneliness can be. She had been sheltered excessively by her husband and… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
If 1 had 1 life to live why would he wait to the last second to live it ! — Militon Munney Copy Share Image
