Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker.
Maxine Hong KingstonUpon Good Earth, lay the body down,
open the mouth wide, let song rush through.
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.
Maxine Hong KingstonNot 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.
Maxine Hong KingstonTag: independent-women
How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.
Maxine Hong KingstonYou're too young to decide to live forever.
Maxine Hong KingstonTag: inspirational philosophy-of-life
…I have changed/I am a dandelion puffball blur. My hair,/scribbles of white lines. My face. Lines/crisscross and zigzag my face./My eyes. I am looking into eyes/whose color has turned lighter, hazy brown./Wind and time are blowing me out." –Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong KingstonThe work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.
Maxine Hong KingstonYou must not tell anyone, what I am about to tell you.
Maxine Hong KingstonI may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.
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