The Woman Warrior — Vocabulary
Maxine Hong Kingston
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The immigrants I know have loud voices, unmodulated to American tones even after years away from the village where they called their friendships out across the fields.†18 more

If we overseas Chinese would just send money to the Communist bank, our relatives said, they might get a percentage of it for themselves.†20 more

I saw one young fighter salute his opponent-and five peasants hit him from behind with scythes and hammers.†10 more

Opera singers, who begin their training at age five, sleep in beds like this.†8 more

Instead of walking steadily on or even eating, I faded into dreams about the meat meals my mother used to cook, my monk's food forgotten.†6 more

It hexed the boys, who would or would not ask me to dance, and made them less scary and as familiar and deserving of benevolence as girls.†3 more

"You have to infer the whole dragon from the parts you can see and touch," the old people would say.†1 more

They're so demure, they barely talk.†3 more

"You can avenge your village," said the old woman.†4 more

Where the deer nibbled, I gathered the fungus, the fungus of immortality.†4 more

When we had to impress other armies-marauders, columns of refugees filing past one another, boy gangs following their martial arts teachers-I mounted and rode in front.†4 more

My army did not rape, only taking food where there was an abundance.†2 more

They told the students that they would begin with a text as old as the Han empire, when the prescription for immortality had not yet been lost.†3 more

Scorn it.†1 more

Some of the people are saying the Eight sages took you away to teach you magic,3 more

Deny accidents and wrest fault from the stars.†2 more

First grade was when I discovered eye control; with my seeing I could shrink the teacher down to a height of one inch, gesticulating and mouthing on the horizon.†1 more

She could validate ghost sightings.†

He leaned back in his leather chair, his bossy stomach opulent.†

The largest says that in the twenty-third year of the National Republic, the To Keung School of Midwifery, where she has had two years of instruction and Hospital Practice, awards its Diploma to my mother, who has shown through oral and written examination her Proficiency in Midwifery, Pediatrics, Gynecology, "Medecine,"†