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.

- Maxine Hong Kingston

Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.

- Maxine Hong Kingston

There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.

- Maxine Hong Kingston

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and …

- Maxine Hong Kingston

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 w…

- Maxine Hong Kingston

Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

- Maxine Hong Kingston

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

- Maxine Hong Kingston

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

- Maxine Hong Kingston

In a time of destruction, create something.

- Maxine Hong Kingston