Maxine Hong Kingston Quote

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.


The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976)


The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.