Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes
My aunt could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex. Women in the old China did not choose. Some man had commanded her to lie with him and be his secret evil.
Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. Knopf, 1976, p. 6.
Anne Hutchinson was tried by the Puritan religious and civil court for heresy. She started with Bible Study classes in her home and drew a substantial following. The clergy at the time were threatened and outraged. It was one thing for a woman to teach Bible Study to other women, but to also have men with the women was too much. The decision of the court was that she was banished from the colony. See {584753}.
By 1900 20 percent of American Women were already working and an inexorable trend had begun.
Alsop wrote much about the Maryland and Chesapeake area of Colonial America. At the time many indentured servants emigrated to America, but the male to female ratio was 6 to 1. The women in effect had a great advantage and often could marry rich planters or others that they chose—not possible for women in England.
Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese Americans.
