Maxine Hong Kingston
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 go to peace rallies."Collection: War
Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.Collection: Marriage
To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after reading them so theydon't have to be dusted. To go through boxes on New Year's Eve and throw out half of what is inside. Sometimes for extravagance to pick a bunch of flowers for the one table. Other women besides me must have this daydream about a carefree life.Collection: New Year
You're too young to decide to live forever.Collection: Forever
I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.Collection: Ugly
I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me.Collection: Talking
Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.Collection: Ocean
I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets.Collection: Teacher
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.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Husband