Quotes from book
The Woman Warrior

Name: The Woman Warrior
Author: Maxine Hong Kingston

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is a book written by Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1976. The book blends autobiography with what Kingston purports to be old Chinese folktales, although several scholars have questioned the accuracy and authenticity of these folktales.

“I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.”

Maxine Hong Kingston book The Woman Warrior

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“You can't eat straight A's.”

Maxine Hong Kingston book The Woman Warrior

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“You're too young to decide to live forever.”

Maxine Hong Kingston book The Woman Warrior

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“We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.”

Maxine Hong Kingston book The Woman Warrior

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