Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societie… - Maxine Hong Kingston

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Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together. (p12, "No Name Woman")

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Maxine Hong Kingston (born October 27, 1940) is a Chinese American author and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Birth Name: Maxine Ting Ting Hong

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