List of Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes

I May Be Ugly And Clumsy, But One Thing I'm Not, I'm Not Retarded.

And I Had To Get Out Of Hating Range.

Any Merchant Who Advertises 'honest Scales' Must Have Been Thinking About Weighing Them.

What Does Old Look Like? Sometimes I Am Wrinkled, Sometimes Not.

Adultery Is Extravagance.

When You Raise Girls, You're Raising Children For Strangers.

My Aunt Could Not Have Been The Lone Romantic Who Gave Up Everything For Sex. Women In The Old China Did Not Choose. Some Man Had Commanded Her To Lie With Him And Be His Secret Evil.

You're Too Young To Decide To Live Forever.

People Who Can Comfort The Dead Can Also Chase After Them To Hurt Them Further-a Reverse Ancestor Worship.

Gods You Avoid Won't Hurt You.

Reading Ngo Tu Lap's Poems, Terrible Nostalgia Wells Up In Me- Nostalgia For A Lost Time And A Far-gone Country, Nostalgia For People I've Loved, And For Creatures Of Forests And Rivers. I Feel Gratitude Too. War Is Over. Peace Arrives With These Beautiful Poems.

No Husband Of Mine Will Say, "i Could Have Been A Drummer, But I Had To Think About The Wife And Kids. You Know How It Is." Nobody Supports Me At The Expense Of His Own Adventure.