Women looked like great sea snails — the corded wood, babies, and laundry they carried were the whorls on their backs.


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

Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes

Women looked like great sea snails — the corded wood, babies, and laundry they carried were the whorls on their backs.

Women looked like great sea snails — the corded wood, babies, and laundry they carried were the whorls on their backs.

Women looked like great sea snails — the corded wood, babies, and laundry they carried were the whorls on their backs.

Women looked like great sea snails — the corded wood, babies, and laundry they carried were the whorls on their backs.