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Quotes from The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts — Maxine Hong Kingston

born 1940 United States

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Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing. (p26)

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976)

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. (p29)

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976)

Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear. (p87)

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976)

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. (p64)

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976)

"We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment." (Brave Orchid, p154, "At the Western Palace")

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976)

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. (p61)

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976)

The difference between mad people and sane people...is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over. (p159, "At the Western Palace")

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976)

"You must not tell anyone," my mother said, "what I am about to tell you." (First line, "No Name Woman")

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Maxine Hong Kingston (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.