People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship. Maxine Hong Kingston More Quotes by Maxine Hong Kingston More Quotes From Maxine Hong Kingston I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists. Maxine Hong Kingston live-lifemusicianartist Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together. Maxine Hong Kingston childhoodorderpeople I do not believe in old age. I do not believe in getting tired. Maxine Hong Kingston tiredagebelieve Gods you avoid won't hurt you. Maxine Hong Kingston hurt I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me. Maxine Hong Kingston villagetalkingpeople There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it. Maxine Hong Kingston curtainsphilosophicaltrying You're too young to decide to live forever. Maxine Hong Kingston live-foreveryoungforever 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. Maxine Hong Kingston auntlyingsex Any merchant who advertises 'Honest Scales' must have been thinking about weighing them. Maxine Hong Kingston scaleshonestthinking I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded. Maxine Hong Kingston retardeduglymay ...I've learned exactly who the enemy are. I easily recognize them-business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye. Maxine Hong Kingston eyefeettwo No husband of mine will say, "I could have been a drummer, but I had to think about the wife and kids. You know how it is." Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. Maxine Hong Kingston husbandadventurekids When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers. Maxine Hong Kingston girlstrangerchildren And I had to get out of hating range. Maxine Hong Kingston rangehate Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes. Maxine Hong Kingston oceaneyesleep Adultery is extravagance. Maxine Hong Kingston adulteryinfidelityextravagance My job is my own only land. Maxine Hong Kingston landhomejobs I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions. Maxine Hong Kingston roommakeuniversemind I have found things that I could have done better in 'The Woman Warrior.' But then I thought: Let the work of one's youth just stand. Maxine Hong Kingston womanbetteryouthwork When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product. Maxine Hong Kingston tellthinkstudentsprocess
