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.
feelings demand watches
The 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.
long-ago order rope
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.
world hunger eating
Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.
parent underwear jam
Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.
differences mad people
The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.
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.