Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes About Hurt

Quotes about: Hurt

• When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen. Even if she had to rage across all China, a swordswoman got even with anybody who hurt her family. Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Girl, Hurt, Feet

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.24, Vintage

• People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Hurt, People, Comfort

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2014). “The Woman Warrior: Picador Classic”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

• Gods you avoid won't hurt you.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Hurt

  Maxine Hong Kingston (1976). “The Woman Warrior: China Men”, Everymans Library

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