“Perhaps women were once so dangerous they had to have their feet bound.” FeminismChinese AmericanFeminine Identity Author:Maxine Hong Kingston
“It seems to her that her education is more than just a way to escape poverty. It is a weapon of choice against stagnation in a kind of feminine condition that arouses her pity, the tendency to lose oneself in a man, which she has experienced, and of which she is ashamed. She feels no desire to marry or have children. Mothering and the life of the mind seem incompatible. In any case, she'd be sure to be a bad mother. Her ideal is the union libre in the poem by Andre Breton.” MotherhoodFeminine Identity Book:The Years Source: The Years