Maxine Hong Kingston Quote

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.


The Woman Warrior: China Men (ed. Everymans Library, 1976)


The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry...

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry...

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry...

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry...