Quotes from Maxine Hong Kingston

The Revolution put an end to prostitution by giving women what they wanted: a job and a room of their own. (1983: 61)

My mother has told me once and for all the useful parts. She will add nothing unless powered by necessity, a riverbank that guides her life. She plants vegetable gardens rather than lawns; she carries the odd-shaped tomatoes home from the field and eats food left for the gods.