Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingstonis a Chinese American author and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth27 October 1940
CountryUnited States of America
order people childhood
Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together.
long-ago order rope
Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker.
found work
I have found things that I could have done better in 'The Woman Warrior.' But then I thought: Let the work of one's youth just stand.
When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product.
training march humans
Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.
forever young live-forever
You're too young to decide to live forever.
ugly may retarded
I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.
hate range
And I had to get out of hating range.
feet dangerous bounds
Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound
infidelity extravagance adultery
Adultery is extravagance.
joy
Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.
marriage daughter husband
Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.
ocean sleep eye
Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.
jobs home land
My job is my own only land.