# Quote — Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior

> "We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment." (Brave Orchid, p154, "At the Western Palace")

- Author: [Maxine Hong Kingston](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston.md)
- Book: [The Woman Warrior](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston/the-woman-warrior.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Maxine_Hong_Kingston#The_Woman_Warrior:_Memoirs_of_a_Girlhood_Among_Ghosts_(1976)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston/the-woman-warrior/were-all-under

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> From the fairy tales, I've learned exactly who the enemy are. I easily recognize them-business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye. (p48)

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> When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen. Even if she had to rage across all China, a swordswoman got even with anybody who hurt her family. Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound. (p19)

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> I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. (p29)

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