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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Book by Maxine Hong Kingston · 4 quotes · People, Feet, Bounds

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“The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have in common are the words at our backs. The idioms for revenge are 'report a crime' and 'report to five families.' The reporting is the vengeance-not the beheading, not the gutting, but the words.”