The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have in common are the words at our backs. The idioms for revenge are 'report a crime' and 'report to five families.' The reporting is the vengeance-not the beheading, not the gutting, but the words.


The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (ed. Vintage, 2010) - ISBN: 9780307759337

Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes

The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have in common are...

The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have in common are...

The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have in common are...

The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have in common are...