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Adultery is extravagance.
My job is my own only land.
You can't eat straight A's.
Gods you avoid won't hurt you.
And I had to get out of hating range.
How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.
In a time of destruction, create something.
Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.
You're too young to decide to live forever.
When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers.
I do not believe in old age. I do not believe in getting tired.
What does old look like? Sometimes I am wrinkled, sometimes not.
I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.
I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets.
You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'
There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.
Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound
I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.
Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.
Any merchant who advertises 'Honest Scales' must have been thinking about weighing them.
Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition.
We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.
People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship.
Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.
I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me.
Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.
I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.
Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.
In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.
I have found things that I could have done better in 'The Woman Warrior.' But then I thought: Let the work of one's youth just stand.
It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.
The way I'm going now is to focus on peace, to create peace. As Sister Corita said, "I don't go to anti-war rallies. I go to peace rallies."
When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.
Not 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I am confirmed in my belief that war is utter destructive violent chaos. There is no "art," no "order(s)," no "just war." No matter what the ideologies, wars are the same.
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.
The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again
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.
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.
My aunt could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex. Women in the old China did not choose. Some man had commanded her to lie with him and be his secret evil.
We seem to be always on cusps. Women come out of the burkah, the niqab, purdah, the closet, then go back in again. Of course, what we need do is to value the happy freedom of all beings.