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Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes: Not many women got to live out the daydream of women—to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself.
         

Not many women got to live out the daydream of women—to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself.


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