"The Woman Warrior was a very important book in my life. I discovered it in 1977…in Amherst, Massachusetts. I was an undergraduate there...for a long time I was in despair. I thought, there was really no audience for my voice. And the narrator, the protagonist in The Woman Warrior, she was working hard to let her voice out. She had to wade through the contradictions of this dual culture, this heavy-duty heritage. If she had the power and the fortitude to continue her 'pressed duck' voice, to eke out that voice, I said, perhaps so must I continue my struggle."
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Women authors from the United States20th-century poets from the United StatesFeminists from the United StatesWomen activists from the United StatesWomen from Hong Kong
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1989 interview in Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston (1998)
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