Quotes by Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

Conflict

Stories

Together

Adultery is extravagance.

Adultery

Extravagance

Infidelity

Any merchant who advertises ‘Honest Scales’ must have been thinking about weighing them.

Honest

Scales

Thinking

Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?

Diversity

Justice

Mother

Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands’ parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is “taking a daughter-in-law.

Daughter

Husband

Marriage

Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.

Crosses

Path

People

How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.

Fishes

Hunger also changes the world – when eating can’t be a habit, then neither can seeing.

Hunger

Vision

World

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

Mind

Rooms

Teaching

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I’m not, I’m not retarded.

May

Retarded

Ugly

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Adultery

Alive

Beautiful

Bounds

Children

Comfort

Conflict

Country

Crosses

Culture

Dangerous

Daughter

Daydreaming

Diversity

Don't Change

Extravagance

Feels

Feet

Fishes

Focus

Forever

Girl

Gratitude

Home

Honest

Hunger

Hurt

Husband

Infidelity

Inspirational

Inspiring

Jobs

Justice

Land

Live Forever

Marriage

May

Messed Up

Mind

Mother

Needs

Niqab

Oral Tradition

Path

Peace

People

Purdah

Race

Retarded

Revenge

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Quotes by Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

Adultery is extravagance.

Any merchant who advertises ‘Honest Scales’ must have been thinking about weighing them.

Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?

Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands’ parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is “taking a daughter-in-law.

Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.

How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.

Hunger also changes the world – when eating can’t be a habit, then neither can seeing.

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

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I’m not, I’m not retarded.

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