Maxine Hong Kingston - Women Quotes

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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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Not many women got to live out the daydream of women—to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself.

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Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound

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My aunt could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex. Women in the old China did not choose. Some man had commanded her to lie with him and be his secret evil.

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Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. Then I get bitter: I am not loved enough to be supported. That I am not a burden has to compensate for the sad envy when I look at women loved enough to be supported. Even now China wraps double binds around my feet.

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To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after reading them so theydon't have to be dusted. To go through boxes on New Year's Eve and throw out half of what is inside. Sometimes for extravagance to pick a bunch of flowers for the one table. Other women besides me must have this daydream about a carefree life.

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