Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingstonis a Chinese American author and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth27 October 1940
CountryUnited States of America
together stories conflict
A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.
motivational women mean
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.
fishes
How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.
parent underwear jam
Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.
training march humans
Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.
infidelity extravagance adultery
Adultery is extravagance.
husband adventure kids
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.
feet dangerous bounds
Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound
ugly may retarded
I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.
marriage daughter husband
Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.
oral-tradition stories dont-change
There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.