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Women looked like great sea snails — the corded wood, babies, and laundry they carried were the whorls on their backs.
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I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.
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Maxine Hong Kingston
Born:
October 27, 1940
(age 84)
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Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962.
Known for:
The Woman Warrior (1976)
China Men (1980)
Tripmaster Monkey (1989)
The fifth book of peace (2003)
Hawaiʻi one summer (1987)
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